Feces-Flinging Inmate Strikes Again: Sheriff

CHICAGO, IL -- An inmate in Cook County Jail’s maximum security tier has been charged with flinging feces at a correctional officer for the second time within the week. The detainee is facing a third felony charge of aggravated battery to a police officer, Sheriff Tom Dart announced Friday.

Investigators said inmate Vermon Patterson threw feces at a deputy in the Division 9 housing tier overseen by the Cook County Jail’s Emergency Response Team as well as correctional deputies.

Patterson had been placed in the housing tier designated for super maximum security males the week before stemming from a Aug. 2 incident in which he threw feces and punch another correctional deputy. He was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer, according to the sheriff’s news release.

The same happened again around 7:10 p.m. Aug. 6, when investigators said he flung feces at another correctional deputy in the shower area of the super maximum security housing tier. Patterson appeared for a hearing Friday at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building where bail was set at $50,000 for the additional charge.

Patterson, 26, has been in the jail since December 2015 on a charge of home invasion with a firearm. Dart said the detainee will lose any pretrial custody credit for time served at the Cook County Department of Corrections, in addition to any sentence imposed in his previous cases.

photo: Vermon Patterson, 26 | Cook County Sheriff