An inmate has been charged with assaulting another inmate in the Carbon County Correctional Facility.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Tim Nothstein, Chief County Detective of the Carbon County District Attorney’s Office in the case against Sara Hargreaves:

At 10:45 a.m. on March 26, Nothstein was notified that Hargreaves, 32, of Nesquehoning, assaulted another inmate, causing her to fall through the railing from the upper tier to the floor of the lower level.

The inmate was transported to St. Luke’s Miners Campus for treatment.

Surveillance footage shows that at 8:38 a.m., Hargreaves, after arguing with other inmates, returned to the cell and got into a fight with the two inmates.

Hargreaves pulled one of the inmates by her hair out of the cell and threw her across the floor and caused her to fall through the railing and injure her back.

Hargreaves told Nothstein the attack resulted from an incident that occurred the night before when the inmate made comments to her that she didn’t like. They began arguing and fighting, resulting in Hargreaves being removed from the cell and placed in another cell of the lower tier.

Hargreaves said that she went to the cell to get the rest of her belongings, they argued and the inmate yelled to her, “Come back in here, let’s finish this!”

Hargreaves faces charges of aggravated assault; recklessly endangering another person; and simple assault.

She is incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $150,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Wednesday before District Judge Casimir T. Kosciolek of Lansford.