Inmate found guilty of spitting at a corrections officer
A Fayette County jury found a prisoner from Lancaster County guilty of assaulting a corrections officer at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette over the summer.
Following his trial on Tuesday, Kahlil Kahree Hammond, 29, was found guilty on the charges of aggravated harassment by prisoner and disorderly conduct.
Hammond spit on Lt. Joshua E. Poska at about 8:45 a.m. Aug. 2, hitting him in the face when Hammond was in the law library cage, according to court documents filed in his case.
Hammond was one of five inmates charged for allegedly assaulting corrections officers at the Luzerne Township lockup in separate incidents between August and October.
Two of those four inmates are currently awaiting their preliminary hearing, and the other two are currently awaiting trial.
Hammond is currently lodged in Fayette County Prison.