Inmate arraigned in Pa. prison guard's slaying

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A federal prison inmate has pleaded not guilty in the stabbing death of a guard at a northeastern Pennsylvania prison earlier this year.

The Times-Tribune of Scranton says 36-year-old Jessie Con-ui was arraigned today in federal court in Scranton via video conference from the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colo.

A judge scheduled his trial for Sept. 16 at the federal courthouse in Wilkes-Barre.

Authorities allege that Con-Ui stabbed guard Eric Williams on Feb. 25 in a premeditated attack at the Canaan Federal Correction Complex in Waymart.

Con-Ui was scheduled to complete a drug-trafficking sentence in September and would then have been returned to Arizona to serve a life term for a 2002 murder. Officials say he could face the death penalty if convicted in the guard’s murder.