an article from the local paper concerning an incident at the place where I work (the two-week lag between incident & story is pretty usual for this town)
(certain identifying details have been obscured. by me. so ha.)
(also, I am not, to quote Mr. Dave Barry, making this up.)
(also, the hamfisted & often incoherent prose of said periodical has been retained as printed):
No arrest yet in prison killing: still no weapon
Detectives say they will question more than 100 people at xxx State Prison next week investigating the stabbing a 22-year-old inmate two weeks ago.
No weapon has yet been found and no charges have been filed in the Dec. 26 killing of Jesus Monzon of Las Vegas.
xxxxxxx County Undersheriff Mike Francone said Friday that he expects charges to be filed against Monzon's only cellmate, John Guido, 29.
Guido, serving a 10-year sentence for battery with a deadly weapon, was to have been eligible for parole in 2005. Authorities described him as a ``general'' in a Hispanic prison gang -- the Nevada MRU. MRU stands for Mi Reza Unidos, or My Race United, prison officials said.
xxxxxxx County Sheriff's Detective Martin Sorenson said the homicide investigation should be completed in the next two weeks and the case forwarded to the state attorney general's office for filing.
Formal charges have been delayed by the absence of a weapon, some sort of sharp instrument, which authorities think was passed out of the cell.
``From what I understand from our detectives, the crime scene was cleaned up by the suspect,'' Francone said. ``There was not much physical evidence left other than the body itself.''
Monzon suffered multiple stab wounds sometime from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
Sorenson said the cell block was in ``total lock down'' at the time and that Guido and Monzon were the only ones there.
The victim has been pressured into joining the gang, Sorenson said.
Guido is described in prison records as 5-foot-4, 158 pounds. His 10-year sentence was for battery with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by an ex-felon. He earlier served an unspecified prison term for burglary and another charge of battery with a deadly weapon, prison records show.
Monzon had been serving a four-year sentence for auto theft and was scheduled to be released August 2004.
``We were not aware of any problem between those two,'' said Gene Whorton, an assistant director for the Nevada Department of Corrections. He said the agency assesses inmates on their arrival, classifying them, reviewing their risks and assigning them to a state facility based in part on their membership in street or prison gangs.
Interviews of a number of inmates failed to explain what prompted the attack, Sorenson said.
``It's really hard to come up with a good answer at this point. It's hard to understand those guys because you don't live like those guys. It's a matter of survival some times,'' he told AP.
``It's a pretty closed society and we are not exactly on their popularity list. We just have to take our time and be careful and try to come up with a complete understanding of what happened.''
Howard Skolnik, another assistant director for the Corrections Department, said the eastern Nevada prison has a low incidence of violence compared with maximum security prisons in other states, with only four killings in the past 10 years.
``We have almost no incidents of violence out there. This is very unusual,'' he said.
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I would add that the final statement quoted above was made by someone who, to the best of my knowledge, has his head firmly lodged in his ass.
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in other news--
NINE DAYS TO NYC!!!!!
(certain identifying details have been obscured. by me. so ha.)
(also, I am not, to quote Mr. Dave Barry, making this up.)
(also, the hamfisted & often incoherent prose of said periodical has been retained as printed):
No arrest yet in prison killing: still no weapon
Detectives say they will question more than 100 people at xxx State Prison next week investigating the stabbing a 22-year-old inmate two weeks ago.
No weapon has yet been found and no charges have been filed in the Dec. 26 killing of Jesus Monzon of Las Vegas.
xxxxxxx County Undersheriff Mike Francone said Friday that he expects charges to be filed against Monzon's only cellmate, John Guido, 29.
Guido, serving a 10-year sentence for battery with a deadly weapon, was to have been eligible for parole in 2005. Authorities described him as a ``general'' in a Hispanic prison gang -- the Nevada MRU. MRU stands for Mi Reza Unidos, or My Race United, prison officials said.
xxxxxxx County Sheriff's Detective Martin Sorenson said the homicide investigation should be completed in the next two weeks and the case forwarded to the state attorney general's office for filing.
Formal charges have been delayed by the absence of a weapon, some sort of sharp instrument, which authorities think was passed out of the cell.
``From what I understand from our detectives, the crime scene was cleaned up by the suspect,'' Francone said. ``There was not much physical evidence left other than the body itself.''
Monzon suffered multiple stab wounds sometime from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Dec. 26, the Nevada Department of Corrections said.
Sorenson said the cell block was in ``total lock down'' at the time and that Guido and Monzon were the only ones there.
The victim has been pressured into joining the gang, Sorenson said.
Guido is described in prison records as 5-foot-4, 158 pounds. His 10-year sentence was for battery with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by an ex-felon. He earlier served an unspecified prison term for burglary and another charge of battery with a deadly weapon, prison records show.
Monzon had been serving a four-year sentence for auto theft and was scheduled to be released August 2004.
``We were not aware of any problem between those two,'' said Gene Whorton, an assistant director for the Nevada Department of Corrections. He said the agency assesses inmates on their arrival, classifying them, reviewing their risks and assigning them to a state facility based in part on their membership in street or prison gangs.
Interviews of a number of inmates failed to explain what prompted the attack, Sorenson said.
``It's really hard to come up with a good answer at this point. It's hard to understand those guys because you don't live like those guys. It's a matter of survival some times,'' he told AP.
``It's a pretty closed society and we are not exactly on their popularity list. We just have to take our time and be careful and try to come up with a complete understanding of what happened.''
Howard Skolnik, another assistant director for the Corrections Department, said the eastern Nevada prison has a low incidence of violence compared with maximum security prisons in other states, with only four killings in the past 10 years.
``We have almost no incidents of violence out there. This is very unusual,'' he said.
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I would add that the final statement quoted above was made by someone who, to the best of my knowledge, has his head firmly lodged in his ass.
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in other news--
NINE DAYS TO NYC!!!!!
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