SMETHPORT — A Bradford man was arraigned Friday morning for allegedly assaulting another inmate at McKean County Jail over what he read about him in The Bradford Era.

John Goodmote-Miller, 21, is charged with aggravated assault — serious injury with extreme indifference, a first-degree felony; simple assault, a second-degree misdemeanor; disorderly conduct, a third-degree misdemeanor; and harassment, a summary offense.

The criminal complaint stated that, at 7:46 p.m. Dec. 28 at the jail, Ronald Thompson and his cellmate were in their cell, talking, when Goodmote-Miller came in with a newspaper and showed it to them to read.

In that day’s Era was a report of Thompson’s arrest on allegations that he threatened a woman, threatened to burn the house down and stabbed a dog in the head with a fork, causing surface wounds, the criminal complaint in Thompson’s case had stated.

On Dec. 28, Goodmote-Miller yelled at Thompson before punching him in the face, fracturing his jaw and knocking out some of his teeth, the complaint in Goodmote-Miller’s case stated. In a recorded phone conversation from the jail after the assault, Goodmote-Miller told the other person he had hit Thompson “so (expletive) hard” and “I might go to the hole because I punched this kid in the face,” the complaint stated.

Goodmote-Miller was arraigned Friday before District Judge Bill Todd and returned to jail in lieu of $15,000 bail. He is scheduled for Central Court on Thursday.