Two inmates face additional charges for incidents in prison

Two Carbon County inmates face additional charges for incidents within the county prison earlier this month.

In the first incident, William J. Moyer, 40, of Lehighton faces a charge of aggravated harassment by a prisoner.

According to an affidavit filed by Nesquehoning patrolman Carl Breiner, on Aug. 18, police received a call from the prison about a prisoner, later identified as Moyer, who got angry, challenged a corrections officers and then spit in that officer’s face after refusing verbal commands to stop.

The incident began after corrections officers removed items from his cell after Moyer was placed on suicide watch.

After the confrontation with the corrections officer, Moyer complied just before pepper spray was used on him.

Moyer said he didn’t remember spitting in the officer’s face, but admitted that he had a confrontation with the officer.

He was arraigned before District Judge Casimir Kosciolek and bail was set at $50,000.

In the second incident, Ronald Lee Strohl, 46, of Nesquehoning, was charged with simple assault, escape and harassment.

According to an affidavit filed by Nesquehoning officer Richard Neikam, on Aug. 24, prison staff called police after an inmate reported being assaulted by Strohl. The victim had already been transported to St. Luke’s Miners Campus for injuries to his head, neck and upper back.

Police met with prison staff, who showed surveillance footage from the incident. The video showed Strohl open his cell door and then strike the victim multiple times before leaving his cell even though he was currently on lockdown.

Neikam spoke to the victim, who said that Strohl believed the victim was hiding drugs and wanted them so that he could get high.

Strohl then denied assaulting the victim and opening the cell door.