A Georgia man received a 20-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to more than a half dozen charges, which included an attack on a Henry County Jail corrections officer with a mop stick.
Henry County Circuit Clerk Shirline Vickers said Antonio Marvette Bell, 19, of Covington, Ga., pleaded guilty to five felony charges, which included first-degree receiving stolen property, first-degree escape, second-degree escape, second-degree assault and promoting prison contraband.
The felony assault charge stemmed from an attack Sheriff William Maddox said left veteran corrections officer Larry Walker with minor injuries that required hospital treatment. Walker was struck with a mop stick after Bell reported a spill in the jail cell.
Bell was in jail after deputies arrested him on July 4, 2009, and charged him with felony possession of a short barrel firearm, and first-degree receiving stolen property, a stolen vehicle.
Vickers said Bell received a 20-year prison sentence as part of the plea agreement for the both the first-degree escape and first-degree receiving stolen property charges. She said the stolen property charge was for a 2007 black Chevrolet Malibu that belonged to an Atlanta woman. She said Bell also received a 20-year prison sentence for the attack on Walker in late July 2009, for the first-degree escape charge.
Vickers said Bell received a 10-year prison sentence for the promoting prison contraband charge, which included a toothbrush that had been sharpened in September 2009. Bell also received a 10-year prison sentence for the mop stick assault and for a second-degree escape attempt that happened in November 2009, when Vickers said Bell used a set of homemade handcuff keys to try and escape during court.
Vickers also said Bell pleaded guilty to several other lesser charges
that included third-degree assault, second-degree criminal mischief and attempting to elude law enforcement.
Vickers said all the sentences were to run concurrently with each other, which gave Bell a 20-year sentence.
Lawyers involved in the case could not be reached for comment.
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