SCI-Fayette inmate charge with making weapons
An inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette in Luzerne Township allegedly fashioned five weapons using a broken mirror and hid them in his mattress.
Tamir Ennis, 42, of Easton in Northampton County was charged with five counts of procuring a weapon and one count of institutional vandalism.
A complaint filed Wednesday indicated that corrections officers received a tip that Ennis had homemade weapons in his cell. Guards searched it on Jan. 24 and said they found the weapons stuffed in his mattress. They were made using plastic/plexiglass, cardboard and cloth. Authorities said Ennis broke a mirror he had in his cell into pieces and used those to make edges on the weapons.
He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 25 before Magisterial District Judge Mike Defino Jr. The hearing will be held at the state prison, according to online dockets.