A 54-year-old Carson City inmate faces felony battery after allegedly assaulting another inmate during an argument over a breakfast item inside the jail.
According to an arrest report, deputies were distributing medication around 11:30 a.m. when a deputy checked on the special needs pod due to someone shouting. The deputy observed Allen White yelling and asked him what was going on.
White said the noise was related to something on the television. After being told to stop yelling, White complied and returned to his cell.
As the deputy prepared to leave the pod, another inmate began banging on his cell door. When the deputy checked on him, the inmate had a bloody mouth and was spitting blood into a toilet.
The inmate told the deputy that White had just punched him in the face. Deputies contacted White, who was washing his hands at a sink.
The deputy noted blood in the water. When asked what had happened, White said he and the other inmate had argued over “sugar brick,” which the report identifies as inmate slang for a breakfast coffee cake.
White told deputies the inmate owed him a brick after allegedly promising to give him some the previous week. White said the argument escalated after the inmate called him a derogatory name, at which point White admitted he punched the inmate in the mouth.
The deputy noted that White appeared very irritated and that his tone during the interview was close to yelling. The injured inmate told deputies he did not provoke White and denied ever promising him any coffee cake.
He said White had been demanding a brick and assumed he should have it because the inmates frequently share food with others.
Deputies took the inmate to a hospital with a traumatic mouth injury, dental trauma, laceration of the mouth, and a closed head injury. According to the report, one of his teeth punctured through the skin of his lower lip and required a stitch. Another tooth was loose, and a third tooth was chipped.
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