Monday, June 27, 2011
YOUNGSTOWN
More than two dozen deputies from the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department packed a county courtroom in a showing of solidarity for fellow deputies who had been assaulted by an inmate.
Luis Perez, 36, of Campbell, appeared Monday before Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court for sentencing on one count of felonious assault against an officer and two counts of harassment with bodily fluids. He pleaded guilty to the charges in May.
Jennifer McLaughlin, an assistant county prosecutor, said Perez, who is HIV positive, was charged after he brutally attacked a guard in the county jail in 2010. She said he was bleeding from the head after the attack and flung blood on two other guards leading him from the holding area.
He was ultimately sentenced to eight years in prison.
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