A Midway man who was caught trying to bring contraband into the Baxter County Detention Center was also attacked by other inmates in the same jail a day after being booked.
Forty-five-year-old Raymond Scott Chappell was being booked into the jail on Sept. 22nd when a jailer found a number of prescription pills — including the generic versions of Xanax and Adderall.
The jailer found the pills inside a small plastic bag hidden in Chappell’s sock.
Upon discovering the pills, Chappell picked up felony charges for possessing the drugs and furnishing prohibited articles for attempting to bring them into the jail, according to the probable cause affidavit.
A day after being put in the local lockup, Chappell appears to have incurred the wrath of three other inmates. According to a Baxter County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the three inmates — identified as 39-year-old Waylon Myers, 28-year-old Coltin King and 40-year-old Jason Chorba — attacked Chappell in the jail’s A Pod while he was asleep in his bed.
Video surveillance showed Myers holding down Chappell while Chorba and King attack him, pulling him from the top bed onto the one below. He was then thrown on the floor and kicked in the head.
According to the incident report, Chappell went to the “buzzer” used for inmates to contact jail staff, but he was not able to be heard on the speaker, so a group of inmates in the A Pod yelled loudly enough to be heard, reporting Chappell needed to be taken out of the pod.
Chappell was taken to the emergency room at Baxter Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for a head injury.
The three inmates were locked down after the event, pending a disciplinary hearing. They have been charged with third-degree battery, a misdemeanor.
Both Chorba and Myers entered guilty pleas earlier this month to charges unrelated to the jail incident. Chorba was given a six-year prison sentence, with three to serve, and Myers five years. Both men were in the local jail awaiting bed space to open in the chronically overcrowded state prison system.
King’s case has yet to be adjudicated.
Chappell was in Baxter County Circuit Court last week where he entered a not guilty plea to the drugs-in-the-jail charge. He was ordered to reappear Nov. 29th.
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