FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE :    Wednesday, May 08, 2013
CONTACT:  Sara Rabern (605)773-3215   

 
Inmates Indicted for Assault at the State Penitentiary

PIERRE, S.D  -  Attorney General Marty Jackley announced today that inmate Carlos Rapheal Green, 28, Sioux Falls, was indicted on one count of aggravated assault against a department of corrections employee, class 2 felony, maximum sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment and/or $50,000 fine and inmate Garrett Austin Dumarce, 24, Sioux Falls, was indicted on one count of aiding, abetting or advising aggravated assault against a department of corrections employee, class 2 felony, maximum sentence of twenty-five years imprisonment and/or $50,000 fine. In conjunction with the Habitual Offender filing, Green faces up to life imprisonment and Dumarce faces up to fifty years imprisonment.

The indictment charges that on or about April 20, 2013, Green assaulted correctional officer Corporal Zane Mathis and that on or about April 20, 2013, Dumarce assisted Green in this incident that occurred at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. 

Green is currently serving a 35 year sentence for aggravated assault, a consecutive 5 year sentence for eluding a police officer and a consecutive 2 year sentence for sliming. All of the sentences are from Brown County. Dumarce is currently serving a 5 year sentence for grand theft committed in Roberts County.

Green and Dumarce are presumed innocent until such time as proven guilty.
 
The case continues to be investigated by the Division of Criminal Investigation and is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.

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