(Stillwater, Okla.) — An inmate in the Payne County Jail — awaiting sentencing on methamphetamine and gun-related charges — has been accused of damaging the sink and toilet fixtures in his cell in February.
On the day that Ian Dale Nadell, 28, of Yale, was charged with willful injury to the Payne County Jail, he wrote a petition to the court asking for a transfer to another facility for his alleged medical condition.
In his hand-written petition filed last week, Nadell claimed he has “a substantial disorder of mood that has significantly impaired his judgment and his ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.
“Since Feb. 23, 2014, defendant has been unresponsive and has stopped eating, drinking and taking prescribed medication,” according to Nadell’s petition.
“The lack of food and water has put defendant in a condition of severe deterioration such that, without immediate intervention, there exists a substantial risk that severe impairment or injury will result to defendant,” Nadell claimed in his petition written on Feb. 25.
Five days earlier, Nadell had damaged the toilet in his cell, Payne County Detention Deputy Justin Colton alleged in an affidavit filed in court records last week.
His two cellmates signed a statement that they witnessed the event, the affidavit alleged.
One of his cellmates said “Inmate Nadell had been causing problems ever since he moved into their cell,” the affidavit alleged.
He said “Inmate Nadell started messing with the grab handle causing it to split the seam on the sink portion of the unit,” the affidavit alleged.
He said he told “Inmate Nadell that he needed to stop messing with the toilet or he was going to get in trouble if the guards found out about it,” the affidavit alleged.
His cellmate “stated that at that time Inmate Nadell had gotten that grab handle off of the unit and had it in his hand and became verbally combative and hostile with him,” the affidavit alleged.
On Feb. 20, Nadell was moved to another cell and the sink/toilet from removed from the cell in which it was damaged, the affidavit said.
Two weeks earlier on Feb. 7, Nadell pleaded guilty to endeavoring to manufacture methamphetamine on two occasions in Yale, on Oct. 10, 2013, and on May 29, 2013, court records show.
Nadell also pleaded guilty on Feb. 7 to being a felon in possession of a 12-gauge shotgun on Aug. 14, 2013, after being convicted of discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle in Jackson County, Michigan.
Nadell was being held in the Payne County Jail pending his sentencing on May 2 on those three felonies that occurred in Yale, court records show.
