Two Garner Prison Inmates Arrested

State police report they arrested two inmates in two separate cases at the state’s high-security Garner Correctional Institution at 50 Nunnawauk Road.

Late on the morning of January 6, state police arrested Garner inmate David Miller, 22, charging him with being a fugitive from justice from the state of Louisiana in connection with a pending narcotics charge there. Miller was arraigned on that charge January 7 in Danbury Superior Court.

Miller will be extradited to Louisiana in the future to face the narcotics charge, state police said.

Miller is being held on $500,000 bail in Garner on a pending Connecticut charge of criminal violation of a protective order.

In a separate case, on the afternoon January 3, Garner inmate Tikwon Knighton, 25, allegedly threw some feces on a correction officer in the prison, state police said.

State police went to the prison to investigate, after which they charged Knighton with assault on public safety personnel and with refusal to be fingerprinted. Knighton was later arraigned on the charges.

Knighton is serving a three-year prison sentence on a conviction for criminal possession of a handgun.