UPDATE | Ohio BCI to visit Trumbull jail in wake of hostage event

WARREN

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation will arrive Friday morning to investigate the five-hour hostage taking of a corrections officer Wednesday afternoon at the Trumbull County jail.

The investigation will determine what charges to file against the three men who took officer Joe Lynn hostage in their isolation pod. The sheriff said it appears that the men used plastic silverware to make the weapon they held against the officer’s neck.

Meanwhile, the sheriff said among the likely changes that may need to occur is the changing of the handles on the doors to certain cell areas, since Wednesday’s incident involved the inmates using knotted sheets to hold the door to the pod closed.

Altiere praised Lynn for his intelligence and the way he handled the situation and said Lynn is off on paid administrative leave for a while to recover from the incident. Neither Lynn or the inmates were injured.

“He’s extremely good on the job for being her for a year,” Altiere said of Lynn.