Post by Wabashr on Apr 17, 2009 15:23:54 GMT -5
Inmate with local ties charged in New Castle prison attack
MUNCIE -- An ex-Muncie man whose criminal record includes at least five battery convictions now stands accused of seriously injuring two guards at the New Castle Correctional Facility.
Raymond Ingram, 43, was charged last week with two counts of battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Class C felony carrying a maximum eight-year prison term.
Documents filed in Henry Superior Court 1 allege Ingram on Nov. 2 punched guards Laura Denney and Terry L. Cross after they had ordered him to surrender an "unauthorized property box."
Denney, struck in the face, suffered a broken nose and broken bones under her left eye socket, the documents said. Cross, hit in the head, sustained a concussion.
An Indiana State Police report also alleges two other inmates briefly blocked a third guard from reaching the injured Denney, who was found "holding her face as blood dripped through her fingers."
Interviewed about the attack, Ingram, who is black, insisted he had not struck anyone, adding that "a white offender had attacked the sergeants," investigators wrote.
Prior to that incident, Ingram had been scheduled to be released on April 29. He has since been transferred to a segregation unit at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in southwestern Indiana.
In 1996, Ingram received a 20-year prison term for a burglary conviction in Madison County.
While serving that sentence, he has apparently been convicted of battery twice -- in Miami County in 2006 and LaPorte County in 2001. Court records do not reflect whether victims in those cases were guards.
Court and prison records indicate Ingram has at least three other battery convictions, in Delaware County in 1995 and 1990, and Marion County, also in 1990.
Ingram's first felony conviction came in Muncie nearly a quarter-century ago, after he was found after hours inside Crazy Joe's Fireworks, then in the 800 block of North Wheeling Avenue.
That July 1984 break-in resulted in a five-year prison term, as did a burglary conviction in Marion County in 1990.
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MUNCIE -- An ex-Muncie man whose criminal record includes at least five battery convictions now stands accused of seriously injuring two guards at the New Castle Correctional Facility.
Raymond Ingram, 43, was charged last week with two counts of battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Class C felony carrying a maximum eight-year prison term.
Documents filed in Henry Superior Court 1 allege Ingram on Nov. 2 punched guards Laura Denney and Terry L. Cross after they had ordered him to surrender an "unauthorized property box."
Denney, struck in the face, suffered a broken nose and broken bones under her left eye socket, the documents said. Cross, hit in the head, sustained a concussion.
An Indiana State Police report also alleges two other inmates briefly blocked a third guard from reaching the injured Denney, who was found "holding her face as blood dripped through her fingers."
Interviewed about the attack, Ingram, who is black, insisted he had not struck anyone, adding that "a white offender had attacked the sergeants," investigators wrote.
Prior to that incident, Ingram had been scheduled to be released on April 29. He has since been transferred to a segregation unit at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in southwestern Indiana.
In 1996, Ingram received a 20-year prison term for a burglary conviction in Madison County.
While serving that sentence, he has apparently been convicted of battery twice -- in Miami County in 2006 and LaPorte County in 2001. Court records do not reflect whether victims in those cases were guards.
Court and prison records indicate Ingram has at least three other battery convictions, in Delaware County in 1995 and 1990, and Marion County, also in 1990.
Ingram's first felony conviction came in Muncie nearly a quarter-century ago, after he was found after hours inside Crazy Joe's Fireworks, then in the 800 block of North Wheeling Avenue.
That July 1984 break-in resulted in a five-year prison term, as did a burglary conviction in Marion County in 1990.
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