Sheriff: No serious injuries during fight at Greene Co. detention center

Three Greene County Jail inmates ingested illegal drugs Wednesday, and a resulting fight sent them to a hospital for treatment, Sheriff Gene Fischer said Thursday.

“We ended up ... having a couple disturbances in the jail which resulted in three people that were assaulted and transported to Greene Memorial Hospital,” Fischer said. “To our knowledge right now, we have no broken bones. We have some bruising and stuff like that, but they’ve checked out OK.”

Fischer said the fight was about the drugs. No one was administered Narcan.

A sweep of the Greene County Jail was done, but a drug dog did not find any additional drugs.

A warrant was obtained to do a body search of the suspect police believe brought in the illegal drugs, but that search was negative.

Fischer said the Greene County prosecutor’s office will decide on any new charges.

“We’ll take what we are able to get once we review all the video that we have and have interviewed people,” Fischer said. “Once again, we are in a jail facility, so the interview process is a little bit different, I guess, or harder sometimes.”

The sheriff said a substance found in the booking area will be sent to Ohio’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation to determine what is.

Fischer said the county plans to spend more than $100,000 for a body scanner for the jail. That will be in place 30 to 45 days after it is ordered. The order won’t happen until some other things are done, but construction has started and some electrical outlets have to be moved.

“I would put it in there yesterday if I could,” Fischer said. “We need to get that piece of equipment. It’s a tool. It’s a deterrent in itself.”

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