A Carbon County inmate is facing more charges after he assaulted another inmate.

According to an affidavit filed by Nesquehoning police officer Richard Neikam, he was informed by the Carbon County Correctional Facility as he dropped off another person at the prison just before midnight on Nov. 18 that an inmate, later identified as Anthony Christopher Yerger, 22, had assaulted another inmate, who was being transferred to St. Luke’s Gnaden Huetten campus for injuries to his head.

At 3:34 a.m. on Nov. 19, after Neikam finished up with another call in the borough, he spoke with prison staff, who advised him that earlier that night, there was a raid of the special block and corrections officers confiscated tobacco, rolled cigarettes and a tattoo gun.

Yerger believed the victim told the staff about the tobacco before the raid, the affidavit said, and threatened to beat him.

Surveillance footage showed Yerger approach the victim, who was playing cards on the floor, strike him with his knee and then choke him. Yerger had also admitted he had done it to prison staff and signed a misconduct form stating so.

The victim sustained cuts and red marks along the left side of his head and a cut above his right eye as a result of the assault.

Yerger faces charges of assault by a prisoner, simple assault, strangulation and harassment in the case.