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| Four Attica guards indicted in alleged inmate assault |
| By buffalonews.com - Matt Gryta |
| Published: 12/14/2011 |
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Four guards at the state’s Attica Correctional Facility were indicted by a Wyoming County grand jury for allegedly assaulting an inmate in the maximum-security prison Aug. 9, according to court papers unsealed Tuesday. The four men — Keith Swack, 37, of Corfu; Sean Warner, 37, of Belfast; Matthew Rademacher, 29, of Wyoming; and Erick Hibsch, 28, of Gainesville — were charged with first-degree gang assault, fourth-degree conspiracy, tampering with physical evidence and official misconduct. Inmate George Williams, 29, who was convicted of larceny for stealing jewelry from two Manhattan stores in 2008 and 2009, suffered broken bones in the Aug. 9 attack, state police said. The four guards face a possible 25- year prison term if convicted in the case, which was the result of a four-month investigation conducted by the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, the State Inspector General’s Office and the Department of Correction and Community Services. Warner is accused of having submitted false statements concerning the event to his superiors at the prison, and as a result he was charged with an additional felony count of offering a false instrument for filing. Swack’s attorney, Joel Daniels of Buffalo, maintained the altercation occurred when the guards learned Williams “may have had a blade and drugs in his cell.” In the previous weeks, Daniels said, prison authorities had recovered “over 70 weapons — knives, shanks, razor blades — from inmates in searches of cells. And a lot of those weapons came from the same C Block where this inmate was.” Read More. |
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