Inmate gets extra prison time for assault while at Trumbull Correctional
A former Trumbull Correctional Institution inmate received a five to seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence, which will be added to an 11-year sentence given out of Stark County.
Carl A. Spencer, 32, pleaded guilty today to a second-degree felonious assault charge before Judge Cynthia Rice of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
He’s incarcerated at Toledo Correctional Institution serving sentences for involuntary manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, abduction and tampering with evidence.
What did Spencer plead guilty to in Trumbull County?
The charges stem from an altercation earlier this year at the Warren prison where Spencer punched a female corrections officer in the face and continued the attack as they fell to the ground.
According to prosecutors, the officer suffered broken bones in her vertebrae and thigh.
A report said the inmate staged the attack on April 4 in retaliation after alleging the correction officer confiscated his “hootch.”
Spencer was originally sentenced on charges connected to the death of Nicholas Stein, whose remains were found buried in the backyard of a Massillon home in April 2018.
Stein had been reported missing since January 2017; read more about the investigation into Stein’s death in The Canton Repository.
Spencer was one of three people convicted concerning Stein’s death in Stark County court, according to the Repository.
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