(Stillwater, Okla.) — Two inmates at the Cimarron Correctional Facility have been ordered to appear in court Aug. 30 on charges of attacking a guard at the private prison in Cushing.
Prosecutor Mike Kulling told KUSH that the inmates are being held in the Cimarron Correctional Facility for Puerto Rico and that he does not yet have information on their crimes or sentences.
The prisoners, Miguel Cabrera Quiara, 33, and Rafmar De Leon Santana, 25, have been charged together with pushing and hitting a guard on July 23.
The guard reported the alleged assault the following day to the Cushing Police Department, according to an affidavit by Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp.
The guard said that he was “walking around giving laundry bags to each inmate,” and that when he opened a cell door, “inmate Rafmar pushed the cell door into his chest,” the affidavit alleged.
The guard said that “both Miguel and Rafmar came out of their cell and started to push him,” the affidavit alleged.
The guard said “that he tried to run away towards the first floor and that both inmates chased him and began assaulting him,” the affidavit alleged.
The guard, who reported he was treated at the hospital in Cushing, “said that he had pain on the back of his head area, left shoulder, right ankle and he had a small cut on the left side of his face area,” the affidavit said.
The guard “said that he had ligament damage in his right ankle and was wearing an air brace on that ankle,” the affidavit said.
Cushing prison investigator Joseph Sebenick with the help of a translator interviewed both inmates who admitted that they had assaulted the guard, the affidavit alleged.
Security footage of the assault shows “both inmates Miguel and Rafmar come out of their cell and immediately go after,” the guard, the affidavit alleged.
Once the guard is downstairs on the first floor, “inmates Miguel and Rafmar run after him and continue to assault him by hitting him,” the affidavit alleged.
If convicted of assault and battery on a corrections officer, the inmates could be given a five-year prison term, court records show.
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