EDMONTON - In an apparent disturbing and disgusting trend, a third case in recent months of human waste attacks by inmates at the Edmonton Remand Centre has surfaced.
Aaron Meyer, 21, was sentenced to two years yesterday after pleading guilty to aggravated assault and assault.
Court heard the aggravated assault stemmed from Meyer using a small knife to twice stab his adopted brother after the two of them got into a fight on May 2.
Then, on July 22 while awaiting trial at the downtown remand centre, Meyer committed an assault by filling an empty potato chip bag with feces, putting it by the cell door of another inmate and then jumping on it.
Court heard both the cell and the inmate inside were sprayed with the fecal matter.
Meyer was given 12 months' credit for time spent in pre-trial custody, leaving him with 12 months to serve.
Last month, Curtis Hill was sentenced to 14 months after pleading guilty to assault with a weapon and two counts of mischief for launching feces attacks on the Edmonton Institution warden and two remand centre inmates.
Court heard warden Ron Boutin was assaulted during a routine Oct. 31, 2008, visit to the prison's segregation unit.
Hill, 29, got Boutin to lean in closer by calling to him in a low voice and then threw a small milk carton filled with fecal matter at the warden through the food tray opening.
The carton didn't make it through the opening and landed on the shelf, but some of it splattered on Boutin.
Hill then reached out, grabbed the carton and threw it at the warden, striking him in the chest area and resulting in the fecal matter spraying on his chest and running down his leg and onto his shoes, causing $500 damage.
Then, on June 6 while at the Edmonton Remand Centre, Hill took a garbage bag filled with excrement, smashed it against a wall and slid it under the door of another cell.
On Aug. 12, Hill filled two plastic pop bottles with a mixture of feces and urine, attached a plastic tube to the bottles and stomped on them, sending the disgusting mixture into the cell of an accused sex offender.
In May, court heard about Barry MacDonald, the so-called "most difficult" inmate in the Edmonton Remand Centre.
During a bail hearing for MacDonald, 27, on charges for allegedly starting a fire in his cell and assaulting two guards, a prosecutor noted MacDonald had "feces-bombed" other inmates as well as urinating in his cell.
TONY.BLAIS@SUNMEDIA.CA
