More than two dozen inmates at Silverdale Detention Center were charged with aggravated assault after an attack last month on two fellow inmates, according to an affidavit from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
The May 27 incident in one of the jail’s housing units, or pods, started in a dispute over fentanyl, the affidavit said.
Witnesses told deputies that they saw one of the victims being stabbed at least five times with a shank, according to the affidavit, which also said both victims were attacked with a broomstick, and punched and kicked in the head and face.
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“The altercation started due to (the victims) having fentanyl in the pod, but refusing to ‘break bread’ with the gangs in the pod,” the affidavit said. “Several inmates then began to assault the two and (one of the attackers) said that if he did not help them (the attackers) that they would ‘beat his ass too.’ (One of the attackers) stated he observed the black male with a tattoo between his eyes put a shank in (a victim’s) face.”