A hostage situation continues at the Trumbull county Jail.
Sheriff Thomas Altiere told 21 News that at approximately 3:30 PM, a corrections officer was taken hostage in a cell at the jail on High Street in Warren.
Officials said three inmates tackled and handcuffed a corrections officer on the third floor of the jail. The inmates are holding the officer hostage, and throughout Wednesday afternoon a peace officer has been negotiating with them to get a safe & peaceful ending.
David Martin, awaiting trial for murder, called a Cleveland television station, shortly after taking the officer hostage, and said he had a shank to the correction officer’s throat.
Martin, 29, is charged in the 2012 murder of Jeremy Cole of Warren, and is awaiting trial on the case which could bring the death penalty if Martin is convicted.
Two other inmates are in the pod with Martin and the officer. They are Kevin Johns, 24, of Cincinnati, convicted of rape & kidnapping, and Richard Ware, 27, charged with aggravated robbery.
There were reports about a month ago of Martin threatening that something would happen before his trial date.
One block of North Park Avenue around the jail has been closed to traffic.
