HORACE LANGFORD JR. / PVT - Sgt. Terry Rising explains how a detainee broke out of his cell by breaking the glass and crawling through.
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Deuel Brock III used his feet and left shoulder to ram the glass window on his jail cell door until it finally shattered at about 8 p.m.
Brock was in jail on charges of child endangerment, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and a traffic warrant. He was arrested on Oct. 15.
Rick Marshall, assistant sheriff and head of the Nye County Sheriff’s Administrative Services Bureau, said Brock complained of hearing demons in his head that told him to break out of his cell.
“The good thing is no one got hurt,” Marshall said.
Greg Arms, a sheriff’s deputy and field training officer, was the only jailer on duty when the incident took place. A technician was also there. In a video of the melee shown to the Pahrump Valley Times, Brock is seen pacing back and forth in his cell, scratching and rubbing his head and intermittently running from one end of the cell to the other, kicking and shoving at the cell’s door. In between frustrated attempts to break the door down, Brock checked the door knob a few times. After a half-dozen attempts or so, the thick glass on the cell door shatters and Brock spills head first into the hallway, the video shows. He lands not far from the control center, where technicians use multiple cameras to monitor inmates.
Arms was on top of Brock within seconds, handcuffing the inmate, another video shows. Brock resisted a bit, and according to Marshall, told Arms he didn’t want to harm anyone; he just wanted to be free. Arms was assisted by Nye County deputies, who rushed to the jail when the incident occurred. Brock was placed in a secure chair, with buckles for locking down uncontrollable inmates.
“I handcuffed him and put him in the chair. Honestly, I was just doing my job. It’s better than chasing him around the jail,” Arms said.
Brock was transported to Desert View Regional Medical Center for a mental evaluation, after a district judge was informed of the incident.
Sgt. Terry Rising, one of the jail’s supervisors, says the incident is illustrative of some of the enduring problems at the town’s lock-up. For one, Arms was the only jailer on duty in a facility housing 33 male and female inmates, some facing serious felony charges. That concerns Rising, who says she is anxious for the county to start construction on a new jail. The county employs eight jailers, two of whom are out on medical leave, and one who is still in training and can’t be left alone to tend to inmates. Many times jailers collect overtime because of the staffing shortage. Rising said she recalls one jailer recently working 160 hours in a two-week pay period.
“It’s frustrating,” she said.
Nye County is on track to build a $16.6 million, 226-bed facility that is expected to be finished in 2012. Meanwhile, the town’s current facility is described by jailers and NCSO officials as a ticking time bomb. At least two escapes have taken place in the last few years, and Marshall described one recent incident where an inmate was caught fashioning a deadly weapon out of scrap material. The inmate allegedly said he was planning to use it against a jailer.
Also, starting in 2008, the American Civil Liberties Union began scrutinizing operations at the jail. In a March 2009 letter to county commissioners, ACLU lawyers said that a number of constitutional concerns were raised by a visit to the jail.
The group’s top concerns were with understaffing, overcrowding and lack of medical care. The civil liberties group also raised questions about how female inmates were separated from male inmates.
Today, a thin piece of aluminum foil covers the glass on the cell housing women prisoners. It’s all that protects their privacy.
“There are concerns about that jail. That is not adequate. That facility obviously needs to be improved,” said Maggie McLetchie, legal director of the ACLU of Nevada.
She added that Pahrump is not the only jail in Nevada facing such problems.
“It is a problem across the board at jails and prisons throughout the state,” she said.
Lol, here we go again. You have Rick (very-Small) Marshall with NCSO trying to put his 1 cent in. A Nye County employee had a concern and he makes a joke about it…is this someone that should be representing NCSO, no! I hope Cobel wins because I am so tired of the NSCO top dogs.
Why do people like you have to make fun of his height–concerning that he has taken on the job to get the jail under control-since they are hurting for personell–Gee let see you Mr. Thomas go in and try to get control over the jail–People love to bitch about what Rick Marshall is doing–Seems to me that someone is jealous over him–Were you fired from NCSO then hired back–By the way, If Cobel gets in there–Rick Marshall is not going away–So vote for Cobel that’s your right to do but it won’t get rid of Rick–Or the rest of the upper crest.
Shame on Rick Marshall for that comment about the Nye County employee. I am voting for Cobel and so is my family!
Read the article tell me where Mr. Marshall was “SHAMEFUL” Go ahead and vote for Scott Cobel because for every vote he gets Tony will receive 2 votes—-So see you on Nov. 2
ccare to share with the rest of us, or is it a secret. What shamefull comment?
My husband I and both have already cast our vote for Cobel!
My wife and I have already voted for Tony, along with out neighbors.
……THIS is debated like it were an election issue? Give it a rest guys. I can guess that due to the current economic climate, criminal activities have increased here in Pahrump. If radio traffic is any determiner, even with the addition of our limited untimely local news organizations, many more people here in Pahrump are “on the edge” and acting out accordingly. Ever notice the increase in the number of inhabited RVs behind and around primary residences here in town? Sometimes, “three hots and a cot” even here in the Pahrump jail are preferential to living in some burned out abandoned car on the graveled roads east of town on “the fan”. Ask the vets holding the “Need Help” signs or the U-Hauls holding “yard sales” out of the back of their moving van – just needing gas money to get out of town with their belongings – ask them how things are going………and you argue over this kind of stuff?
Point well made, thank you.
The upper crust will not be going away? Are these People glued to the wall ???
These people are embedded in the Government, Do they count the Democratic votes ????
I guess my Question is this guy who broke the glass in the jail; why did they take him to the hospital and just leave him there with 3 female nurses and families waiting in the waiting room? hello common since, take the guy to a mental hospital in las vegas. you don’t show up with 4 armed deputies and then leave the hospital! also, should there not be bars on the inside of the glass? if you need help weiding let me know!
Scott, if this is really you, your spelling does not help you look too intelligent. However, I think you could be a decent Sheriff. My biggest worry is one that I have heard from many people; Your wife. If you win, please control her and keep her out of your business as Sheriff. I apologize for being a little rude, but that’s what is worrying a lot of people.
Obviously, you are reading the blog. Why have you not answered my questions that ALL of Pahrump voters would like to know. if you want to be Sheriff, you need to answer them to everyone, not just a few facebook friends or a telephone call. What are you hiding that you can’t say it in print? Please share with everyone so that we can all make an educated decision. With out that, you don’t deserve to be Sheriff.
Scott Cobel (if it really is you)
One of two things happened, either you have been misinformed or you purposefully printed misinformation. Either way, you failed to research what happened.
On 10/27/10, I met with Desert View Hospital staff concerning several issues, one of which was the incident you reference.
The staff conveyed appreciation that the deputies stayed on scene at the hospital until he was secured. And that the deputies returned when the hospital requested them to do so.
Your comment that the deputies took “him to the hospital and just leave him there with 3 female nurses and families waiting in the waiting room” is a false statement made out of ignorance or simply a lie.
Well ACLU, what do you want for inmates? Ritz Carlton?? We should send ALL inmates to Maricopa County and Sheriff Arpaio so they can leave in tents…By the way, Why can’t Nye provide/create Tents for the inmates as well?
No Sheriff in the country has BALLS like Sheriff Arpaio anyway….
say u’re name,say u’re name!!! if have 2 b undercover dont bother and why do i keep gettin taken off??????
Because you you seem to have nothing intelligent to add it appears and you really should try and spell out your words.
Well even if that is Scott Cobel’s post at least you can understand what he was saying. Tony just mumbles and you have no clue what he said! I have to turn the channel when he’s on the news because I have to ask myself “what the —- is he talking about?”
I don’t care how many demons this Guy heard, it goes to show you the glass on inmates cell’s can be broken, take the glass down and put up bars, and see how many bars he can break thru, or pull apart….Wonder where he thought he was going to go, when he succeeded in breaking the glass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rick Marshall is the best thing that ever happened to the NCSO…going back to the Lieseke days. He has worked tirelessly, obtaining grants for training, and equipment, to try and make the NCSO the best it can be. He has been “the brains” behind the dept. for a long time now…So I wouldn’t be so quick to pick on him, and want to get rid of him.
I voted for Tony and so did my neighbors on both sides, many of the votes Cobel gets will be from people who only been here a short (not all) but many and you can tell pretty much that is the case by what they say and really the don’t know much about this town they just listen to what a few people say that have either been here a long while or people that thought they got a bad deal from Tony D. If any one would look at the record of Tony and Scott it is plain to see who has what going for them and Tony must be liked some what they keep voting for him, Mr Cobel just doesn’t have it and he knows in his heart he really can’t win, maybe another time and another job
Got Grammar;
Well you are right about that I have heard bit’s and pieces from people (Some of our Vets) who visit the clinic, Loose lips sinks ships.