KINGMAN, AZ (CBS5) -
A Kingman man was arrested on a felony charge of aggravated assault he allegedly bit a corrections officer during a scuffle at the Mohave County Jail on Tuesday.
Deputies said Michael Edwin Dobson Jr., 50, had been removed from his cell about 10:30 a.m. while a broken sprinkler head in his cell was repaired.
While being returned to his cell by detention officer, he became combative and bit one of the officer's on a forearm.
Dobson was also charged with felony destruction to a jail facility for breaking the sprinkler head.
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