GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KFGO) – An inmate in the Grand Forks County Jail is facing additional charges after allegedly stabbing a corrections officer in the face.
Court records say 23-year-old Gavin Johnson was told he was being moved to a different cell, but refused and sat in a laundry basket. When a corrections officer tried to remove Johnson from the laundry basket, Johnson stabbed officer above the left eye with a pencil.
Multiple officers had to restrain Johnson. He was in jail for allegedly trying to break into a Grand Forks apartment. He is now also charged with aggravated assault with a weapon.
At 17-years-old, Johnson was tried as an adult and convicted for choking a corrections officer in the Youth Correctional Center in Mandan during a riot. The 2018 riot received national media attention.
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