Associated Press
BEDFORD, Pa. — A western Pennsylvania jail inmate who had burglary charges dismissed because prosecutors didn’t bring him to trial fast enough remains jailed because police say he was caught trying to make a knife from a plastic shampoo bottle.
Twenty-five-year-old Hugh Jeffrey Gilliam had the 2012 burglary and criminal mischief charges dismissed last month. But the Altoona Mirror reports state police have since charged him with trying to make the knife in April, when he was still in the Bedford County Correctional Facility awaiting trial on the earlier charges.
Gilliam’s public defender didn’t immediately return a call for comment Friday.
He faces a preliminary hearing on the weapons charge July 2.
Deputy Warden Adam Henderson says Gilliam has presented disciplinary problems since he’s been in the jail, and wasn’t allowed to have bottles in his cell.