Inmate draws extra time on day of release

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

David A. McComb Jr. was released from the penitentiary Tuesday after finishing an eight-year prison term, but he drew an additional six months in prison on the same day for assaulting one penitentiary guard and threatening another.

McComb, 26, drew the extra time from Judge James C. Evans of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court after pleading guilty as charged to assault and intimidation.

The assault charge stems from his taking pepper spray from a guard at the Ohio State Penitentiary on Oct. 15, 2008; and the intimidation charge stems from a threat he made against another penitentiary guard six days later. The guards retrieved the pepper spray; and there were no injuries.

The prison sentence for burglary and aggravated robbery with a firearm specification, which McComb was serving at OSP at the time of the assault and threat, was imposed in 2003 in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court in Dayton.

McComb will be on parole for three years after he leaves prison.