Garner Inmate Arrested On Assault Charge

State police report that they were called to Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high-security prison at 50 Nunnawauk Road, about 1:15 am on October 17 to investigate an incident in which an inmate allegedly assaulted his cellmate.

State police said their probe showed that inmate John Carr, 30, had struck his 27-year-old cellmate, but did not injure him.

State police charged Carr with third-degree assault and with refusal to be fingerprinted. Carr was arraigned on those charges on October 18 in Danbury Superior Court.

Carr is being held at Garner on bail while awaiting trial on charges in including first-degree arson stemming from a September 2009 incident in New Haven.