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| Three OH Deputies Injured in Fight With Jail Inmate |
| By Medina Gazette |
| Published: 09/30/2002 |
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Three sheriff's deputies were taken to local hospitals following a fight with an inmate around 2:30 p.m. September 24 at the county jail. Sheriff Neil Hassinger asserted the inmate, Charles Compton, became upset at a disciplinary hearing and began attacking the deputies. Sgt. Mitch Pope, who was kicked in the stomach, and corrections officer Brian Young, who sustained a minor knee injury, were treated at Medina General Hospital and released. Deputy Bill Harrell was treated at Wadsworth-Rittman Hospital and released. He was checked for high blood pressure and a bruised knee, Lt. David Baker said. Baker, jail administrator, alleged Compton attacked the deputies after he was advised he was going to be in lockdown for two weeks. Lockdown means being confined to the cell for 221/2 hours a day. 'He got freaked out,' Baker said. 'Officers were holding back. He wasn't.' Compton was not injured, Hassinger confirmed. The sheriff said Compton later was placed in a restraint chair. Hassinger said he would forward information to the prosecutor's office to pursue charges against Compton. Compton, 22, of Warrensville Heights, has been in the county jail on a third-degree felony count of failure to comply with the order of a police officer, punishable by up to five years in prison, and a fourth-degree felony count of receiving stolen property, which carries a prison term of up to 18 months. The charges stem from a June 11 incident in which Medina police captured Compton after a car chase on the city's west side. Three police cruisers were damaged in the chase, one extensively, when the stolen Mercury Cougar Compton was driving rammed into one of the cruisers before getting hung up on a large rock in front of Stop-N-Go, 828 W. Liberty St. |
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