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Central Prison inmate accepts plea deal in attack on jail worker

An inmate linked to a violent attack on a Central Prison employee last year has accepted a plea deal in exchange for prosecutors dropping a felony assault charge on a detention officer, court records show.

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Alfred Charles
, WRAL.com managing editor
RALEIGH, N.C. — An inmate linked to a violent attack on a Central Prison employee last year has accepted a plea deal in exchange for prosecutors dropping a charge of felony assault on a detention officer, court records show.

Jaquan Lane, 24, pleaded guilty in June to assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and received an additional four years added to the sentence that landed him in prison. He is expected to be released in 2026 after accepting the deal.

Lane was ordered to prison after a Jan. 14, 2015, conviction for robbery with a dangerous weapon, and had been scheduled to be released in October 2020.

But Lane was hit with new charges after he was accused of assaulting Brent Soucier, a prison unit manager, in June 2018 in what investigators said was a "vicious and malicious surprise attack."

Soucier was seriously injured and was hospitalized for about a month as a result of the attack.

A second inmate, Andrew Ellis, was also accused in the attack on Soucier.

Ellis has been charged with felony conspiracy in connection with the prison attack, but his case has not been resolved yet.

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