YORK, S.C. (AP) - Three inmates have been arrested after a guard was attacked at a South Carolina jail.
A police report says a guard at the York County jail was shoved and threatened about 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The report says 41-year-old David Easter of Rock Hill shoved the guard. The guard and another officer subdued Easter, but several other inmates then gathered around the confrontation.
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Easter is charged with assault and battery. He had been in jail since January.
Twenty-two-year-old Harold Miles of Rock Hill is accused of throwing a chair that almost hit the officers and is charged with assault and battery. He had also been in jail since January.
Thirty-four-year-old Michael David Morgan of Smyrna is charged with threatening an officer. He had been in jail since February.
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