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DeLoach charged with choking jailer
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A Warren County Jail inmate faces felony assault charges after he reportedly choked a corrections officer outside his cell.The inmate, Corker Jackson DeLoach, 38, is charged with aggravated assault and could have up to six years added to his sentence if he is convicted. He has been moved to solitary confinement following the incident.Corrections officer John Elliot said he was moving between C-Pod and D-Pod at the jail Saturday morning when DeLoach stepped out to talk to another inmate.“I asked him repeatedly to move back into C-Pod without any response,” the jailer recalled, noting he then sternly issued an order for the inmate to move back into his pod.“He grabbed me by the throat with one hand and pushed me against the wall,” Elliot said, noting he was able to get DeLoach off him and back into the cell block where he belonged.Elliot said DeLoach was moved to solitary confinement given his actions. “He was moved into D-Pod and put into solitary for the safety and security of other correctional officers,” the jailer said.