Deputies: Mohave jail inmate bites officer - CBS 5 - KPHO

Deputies: Mohave jail inmate bites officer

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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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