NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- An inmate with a long rap sheet slashed a correction officer and a captain at the Manhattan Detention Complex, a union representing Department of Correction officers said.
The inmate had gotten into a fight with two correction captains Thursday at the lower Manhattan complex, also known as “the Tombs,” and had refused to drop a sharpened piece of metal, sources told the New York Post.
The officers used pepper spray on the inmate, who allegedly swung the piece of metal, slashing the officer, the sources said. When pepper spray was used a second time, the inmate fell to the floor and allegedly slashed a captain, according to the report.
The male officer was reportedly slashed on the arm and the female captain was slashed in the knee.
Both the captain and the officer required stitches but were released from a hospital.
A spokesman for the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association said the inmate was Franklyn Dominguez, who has reportedly been arrested 70 times and been involved in 84 domestic incidents.
The union said the attack came just a few weeks after a female correction officer was stabbed in the hand.
“These are not isolated incidents—slashings and stabbings are up 16% this year,” the union said in a statement.