A twenty-one-year-old Griffin man has been charged in connection with an alleged assault at the Floyd County Corrections Center on Blacks Bluff Road in Rome back on September 18.  Authorities say that the assault in the correctional facility was gang-related.According to an arrest warrant, Samuel Dean Wallace and two other people got into an altercation. One of the men was knocked to the ground, and Wallace was seen on the facility’s camera system securing the man’s right leg. He then assisted in dragging the man from the day-room to the sleeping area of a dorm. The man was then assaulted by multiple other offenders, who also robbed the man of his store goods.

Wallace is charged with aggravated assault, participation in criminal street gang activity, and unlawful acts of violence in a penal institution.

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