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Inmate attacks three jailers
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Dustin Couch
Three corrections officers were injured when a Warren County Jail inmate leapt from his cell and attacked them.The inmate, Dustin Lane Couch, 27, stands charged with three felony counts for the attack.According to one of the victims, corrections officer Mike Hill, he and other officers were conducting their routine afternoon head count when Couch attacked.“I entered D-80, in Pod D where inmate Dustin Couch was housed,” Hill revealed, noting that is when the inmate attacked him. “He started to yell and then laid his hands on me.”Hill said he was pushed from the cell and into the cell bars. He yelled out for assistant corrections supervisor Scott Krofssik, who came running with his taser pulled ready to tase the inmate.