Inmate Sentenced For Assaulting Correction Officers

VALHALLA, NY — An inmate at the Westchester County Jail was sentenced for assaulting two correction officers. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. said Wednesday, Nov. 14 John Wooten, 37, was sentenced to seven years in state prison.

Wooten pleaded guilty Oct. 11 to two counts of second-degree assault, felonies.

He admitted in court that he assaulted two Westchester County correction officers — one in December 2017 and one in January 2018.

At the time, Wooten was being held at the jail on a charge of criminal mischief, a felony, for an incident committed at 25 Operations Drive in Valhalla Dec. 19, 2018.

Following the guilty plea, Scarpino said that correction officers do a dangerous and important job.

"They should know that any attack on any one of the within the county jail will be prosecuted and we will see that justice is done," he said.

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