A Wood County Grand Jury has indicted an inmate for his alleged threatening and violent behavior in Wood County Jail.
Jeffrey Arnold was indicted on three counts of intimidation, four counts of obstructing official business, two counts of assault on a corrections officer, one count of harassment with a bodily substance, and 22 counts of aggravated menacing, according to Wood County Prosecuting Attorney Paul Dobson.
All 32 charges stem from allegations of Arnold’s actions while being housed in the county jail, awaiting trial on a felony charge of violating a protection order, currently before Wood County Common Pleas Judge Matthew Reger.
It is alleged that, while incarcerated, Arnold has continuously been harassing, threatening, and violent toward the corrections officers.
Each intimidation charge is a lower-tier felony of the third degree, carrying a maximum penalty of three years in prison. The obstructing official business, assault, and harassment with a bodily substance charges are all felonies of the fifth degree, each carrying a maximum penalty of one year in prison. The aggravated menacing charges are misdemeanors of the first degree. Should Arnold be convicted of all offenses, he faces a maximum penalty of 16 years in prison.
Arnold remains in custody on both of his cases. His new case will also be assigned to Reger. His arraignment date is Sept. 26.
