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Man charged after jail disturbance

A Havre man faces additional charges after he allegedly caused a disturbance in the Hill County Detention Center.

Casey O. Mummey of Havre, born in 1980, has been charged with one count of assault with a weapon.

Mummey was in the Hill County Detention Center this morning on $30,000 bond. His next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 22.

According to court documents, on the night of Nov. 13 a detention officer Tanner Gomke at the Hill County Detention Center heard a knocking sound coming from Mummey’s pod. Gomke heard another inmate state, “he did not want to fight and he just wanted to go home.”

Gomke and Officer Vicki Olson entered Mummey’s pod and found Mummey holding a mop stick.

Mummey told the officers that they were just “jousting.” He then struck the pod’s door several times with the stick.

The other inmate made eye contact with Gomke and made it clear he was having a problem and mouthed, “Get me out of here.”

Olson then instructed Mummey to go to the facility’s recreation area to “run it off.”

As Gomke took Olson to the area, Mummey kicked a laundry basket and began punching windows and yelled, “What’s up” to detention officer Nicholas Stevenson.

The court documents go on to say several prohibited items were found in a loosened drain pipe on Mummey’s pod including a mop head

The inmate said that Mummey had been hitting the inmate with a mop handle and harassing him.

After time in the recreation area, Olson instructed Mummey that he needed to go take a shower. Stevenson then told Mummey that prohibited items were found in his cell and that he would not be allowed in his cell until the drain plate was fixed.

Mummey reportedly became irate. He grabbed and knocked a laundry hamper and ladder over and grabbed a plastic chair and threw it on the ground, cursed and said, “I’m going to make you guys earn your pay today” and, “You’re going to have to wrestle me into the cell.”

 

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