State Police Arrest Garner Inmate

On Assault Charge

State police responded to Garner Correctional Institution, the state’s high-security prison on Nunnawauk Road, about 10 pm November 9, after learning of an incident involving an inmate and a correction officer.

State police said their investigation found that inmate Troy Jaynes, 39, had thrown a cup of urine onto a correction officer.

Jaynes refused to provide a statement to investigators and also refused to be fingerprinted, state police said. State police arrested Jaynes on charges of assault on a  correction officer and refusal to be fingerprinted.

Jaynes was scheduled to be arraigned on the charges in Danbury Superior Court.

Jaynes is serving a 50-year sentence in Garner on a murder conviction.