Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Rikers Island inmate has been indicted for Attempted Rape, Sexual Abuse charges and additional charges for attacking a female NYC Department of Correction Officer and four inmates in separate incidents in the jail.
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Defendant Slashed CO at Rikers While Waiting to Be Sent to Prison for Over 25 Years. Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that Bahsid McLean has been indicted on Attempted Assault for stabbing a NYC Department of Correction officer at Rikers Island, where McLean was waiting to be sent to state prison for killing his mother and severing her head. District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant continued his vicious ways behind bars, assaulting a Correction Officer. If he is convicted of this brutal crime, we will ask that he serve the maximum 15 years, to run consecutively to his 25 years-to-life sentence for murdering his mother.”District Attorney Clark said McLean, 26, was arraigned yesterday before Bronx Supreme Court Justice William Mogulescu and is due back in court on July 10, 2017. McLean was indicted on Attempted Assault in the first degree and related charges. If convicted on the top charge, McLean could face up to 15 years in prison. He also has a pending assault case involving the slashing of an inmate at Rikers. According to the investigation, the incident occurred in the West Facility of Rikers Island on December 14, 2016, when McLean used a small weapon to stab Correction Officer Matthew Hines near the eye. Hines sustained a laceration near the eye, briefly lost consciousness and sustained other injuries in the ensuing assault, including a fractured nose.
Bloods Member Sentenced To Total 19 ½-21 Years in Prison for Orchestrated Attack, An Earlier Assault on a DOC Officer, and Home Invasion Case. Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Rikers Island inmate has been sentenced to eight years in prison for leading an assault on a NYC Department of Correction Captain on Thanksgiving Day in retaliation for the captain’s disciplining him and other inmates. The defendant also was sentenced in two other cases, and the three sentences are to run consecutively, resulting in19 ½ to 21 years behind bars. District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Jason Reid, 33, of the Bronx, was sentenced today by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Efrain Alvarado to eight years in prison and five years post-release supervision for the November 23, 2017 attack on the captain, to which he pleaded guilty to Attempted Gang Assault in the first degree; 10 years for a 2015 home invasion, to which he pleaded guilty to first-degree Robbery and first-degree Burglary; and 1 ½ to three years for the 2017 assault of a DOC officer, to which he pleaded guilty to Attempted Assault in the second-degree. Reid pleaded guilty to all the charges on February 8, 2018 before Justice Alvarado. Charges are pending against 14 other inmates indicted in the assault. On August 18, 2017, in the George R. Vierno Center on Rikers Island, Reid punched a DOC officer in the face.