UPDATE: Eight inmates charged in jail fight

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By Navideh Forghani nforghani@nbcaugusta.com

Story Published: Feb 7, 2010 at 10:27 PM EDT

Story Updated: Feb 8, 2010 at 1:02 PM EDT

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Eight inmates are charged after fighting with deputy jailers.

Investigators say the inmates started to fight with three deputy jailers Friday night after they were told to stop gambling.

The fight happened on the sixth floor of the jail. That's where inmates charged with violent crimes, like murder and armed robbery, are usually kept.

Sheriff Ronnie Strength tells 26 News 31 inmates were on the sixth floor when the fight occurred. But only those eight will be charged.

One deputy received a broken nose, another a broken rib, and one was stabbed in the face with a pencil.

Investigators have charged them with several counts of aggravated assault against a police officer and rioting in a penal institution.
Inmates charged:
Lewis Eugene Smith, 21
Markale Lebron Robbinson, 19
Jatavious January, 20
Tavis Famon Harris, 18
Jeffery Giliard, 30
Joseph Thomas, 23
Levaughn Sloans, 23
Nathaniel Smith, 25

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Friday, Feb 12 at 9:31 AM Almeta Jefferson wrote ...

Acctually one of the police got the point, the pencil point. Yo

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Thursday, Feb 11 at 3:07 PM Anonymous wrote ...

Thats not how you spell it in ebonics? And let me tell ya, your one to talk about spelling.

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Wednesday, Feb 10 at 5:22 PM Anonymous wrote ...

I thought that was the way you spelled it in ebonics yo. Either way you got the point.

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Wednesday, Feb 10 at 11:38 AM Almeta Jefferson wrote ...

Whopped? Did you mean whooped? Maybe when I was younger, but not lately. Give my regards to yo mama.

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Wednesday, Feb 10 at 8:42 AM Anonymous wrote ...

and a jefferson got their a** whopped

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Tuesday, Feb 9 at 5:05 AM Almeta Jefferson wrote ...

White folk started the fight but the brothers gettin charged. Nothing ever going to change. As for Dave and his cell visits, that why the police got beat up to start with because of abuse.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 3:56 PM john wrote ...

don't worry about little mr markale and his band of losers..the taxpayers will get to coddle this trash via the government for the rest of their lives.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 10:28 AM Overit wrote ...

Markale Robinson appears frequently in the jail report.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 7:44 AM Dave wrote ...

Lets just hope Ronnie S. and the boys are handling this the way that Charlie W. and the boys used to, daily cell visits for these morons. NBC, lets see what these upstanding citizens original charges are????

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