South Carolina Federal Inmates Face Additional Time for Assaulting Correctional Officers
| U.S. Attorney’s Office March 10, 2010 |
COLUMBIA, SC—Acting United States Attorney Kevin F. McDonald stated today that federal inmates Sinclair Landon Atkins, age 59, and Julio Adalbert Castellanos-Garcia, age 36, both housed in the Federal Correctional Institution in Edgefield, South Carolina, were each indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting a federal officer in separate incidents.
Each inmate allegedly threw feces and urine on a correctional officer in separate incidents last year.
Atkins is currently serving an 80-month sentence for threatening a federal judge, while Castellanos-Garcia is serving a 36-month sentence for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation.
The maximum penalty each inmate faces is a fine of $250,000.00 and an additional term of imprisonment for three years.
Mr. McDonald stated that the case was investigated by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and that he has assigned the case to Assistant United States Attorney Jeanne Howard of the Greenville office for prosecution.
The United States Attorney stated that all charges in these indictments are merely accusations and that all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.