Sep 10, 2005 By Staff 2 min read

An HIV-positive inmate at the state correctional facility in Luzerne Township was convicted of three counts of assaulting prison officials during Fayette County’s criminal court term. Imprisoned for crimes committed in Delaware County in the southeastern corner of the state, Gary Jay Williams is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Fayette.

Last November, Williams used a pen tube and a toothpaste tube to fashion a device to squirt a mixture of urine and feces on prison nurse Rosemary Horner.

In a criminal complaint, state police Trooper James Monkelis called Williams “an HIV/AIDS infected person who has stated repeatedly that he will continue to throw this mixture on Horner.”

He was already sentenced in that matter after jurors convicted him of assault by a prisoner. Judge Gerald R. Solomon added another three to 10 years to Williams’ jail time.

Earlier this week, Williams was again convicted of assault by a prisoner for pelting Horner with bodily fluids on Aug. 15, 2004.

He refused to come to court, but was tried anyway.

Jurors heard evidence that Horner and corrections officer Randolph Puskar were distributing medication when Williams filled a milk carton with feces and urine and threw it at them. He hit Horner’s chest with the matter.

A court document indicates she “fled to the steps, at which point Williams utilized a second milk carton to throw a feces mixture.”

That fluid hit her in the face and hair, police said.

That incident apparently started two days earlier when Horner wrote Williams up for making inappropriate sexual comments to her.

Police said Williams told Horner, “I told you I was going to get you.”

Williams wasn’t the only inmate to go to trial during the county’s two-week court term.

Edward John Reid, 46, was convicted of aggravated harassment by a prisoner for throwing urine on corrections officer Jeffrey Santiago on Feb. 13. Santiago was passing out trays in the restricted housing unit of the prison when Reid threw urine through a food slot.

The liquid got on Santiago’s pants and hands.

Reid is in prison for charges stemming from Lancaster County.