A Bradford man who was jailed on three separate pending criminal cases has been accused of assaulting another inmate at McKean County Jail.
Charges are pending against Christopher D. Salonis, 42, for alleged assaults against a 23-year-old man who was not identified in a release from Kane-based state police.
According to police, at 4:07 p.m. Friday, Salonis sprayed the 23-year-old in the eyes with a chemical cleaner. On Sunday, the two started arguing, and Salonis allegedly grabbed the other man by the throat.
Charges were not filed in the alleged jail assault as of Monday afternoon, but police indicated they would be filing charges against Salonis through the office of District Judge William Todd in Smethport.
At the time of the alleged assault, Salonis was incarcerated on bail for three separate pending criminal cases. He has not been convicted in any of the three cases; a last day to plea conference for all three is scheduled for Oct. 18 in McKean County Court.
In those cases, he is facing allegations that during the early morning hours on Jan. 4, he walked into a Bradford residence, tried to sell pills to the occupants and broke a window; on Jan. 8, he allegedly led law enforcement officials on a high-speed chase from New York state into Pennsylvania; and on Jan. 9, he allegedly asked his wife to change the ignition and door locks on the truck involved in the chase so evidence police collected would not match at the time of trial, court records indicate.
Salonis’s bail in the three pending cases totals $65,000.
Also on Oct. 18, Salonis has a revocation hearing scheduled on a fourth case in which he pleaded guilty in 2017 to misdemeanor charges.
