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Westchester County Jail Inmate Convicted Of Assaulting Corrections Officer Westchester County Jail Inmate Convicted Of Assaulting Corrections Officer
Westchester County Jail Inmate Convicted Of Assaulting Corrections Officer An inmate at the Westchester County Jail is facing nearly a decade in state prison after being convicted of assaulting a corrections officer. Yonkers resident Paul Overton, 36, has been convicted of second-degree assault after attacking a Westchester County Correction Officer in the county jail, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, Jr. announced on Tuesday. According to Scarpino, on July 19 last year, Overton assaulted the correction officer at the jail. After failing to comply with orders from other guards, Overton “intentionally caused injury to the officer by punching,…

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by Zak Failla