HOOKERTON — Four prisoners arrested for assaulting a government official. Two arrested for malicious conduct, and another for simple assault.
All inmates arrested on the same day, all from the same facility.
It would lead a person to imagine a fight broke out Friday at the Maury Correctional Institute, where all seven men are prisoners.
Unless, of course, it didn’t happen that way.
“We haven’t had a major disturbance where all of these inmates have been acting in concert with each other,” MCI Superintendent Dennis Daniels said. “What you’re going to find in these cases, they were all individual. Especially the ones charged with malicious conduct or assault on a government official — these are individual cases where the inmates have actually assaulted staff, and in most cases by throwing feces or urine or spitting on them.”
Indeed, not all incidents happened on the same day, or same month. The inmates were going before a judge for the first time for their alleged crimes.
“These weren’t all related cases. Basically, the court scheduled first appearances for every assault case they’ve had back to September,” N.C. Department of Public Safety spokesman Keith Acree said. “We just had to carry them all to court on the same day. It’s not like there was one incident they were all involved in. It was little stuff that played out over the past three or four months.”
Terry Adonis Baldwin, 36, Wilbert Baldwin, 29, Kevin Christopher Rogers, 32, and Michael Jonathan Thompson, 28, were all indicted for assaulting a government official. Daryl Boyd Atkins, 31, and William Walker Brunner, 24, both received one count of malicious conduct, and Carl Derell Peterson, 34, claimed one count of simple assault. None of the men were given a bond.
Acree explained that when a person is already incarcerated, the procedure for processing that inmate on additional crimes is different than someone who is walking free.
“The day of the arrest is not necessarily the day it happened. Particularly when the inmate’s already in prison,” Acree said. “There’s not a rush to come out and see them and arrest them because they know they’re not out walking the streets.”
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