A 23-year-old man was sentenced Monday to additional prison time for an assault during the Mother’s Day riot last year at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.
Johnson County District Judge Daniel E. Bryan Jr. gave Ian Yelton 20 months to five years in prison for the attempted second-degree assault of Cory Bewley, an inmate serving time for second-degree murder.
Yelton pleaded guilty. The new term will run consecutively to a 30- to 50-year sentence he got in Madison County in 2012 for a sexual assault.
He was the second of five inmates charged following the riot to enter a plea and be sentenced.
In May, William T. Harris, 22, pleaded no contest to third-degree assault for making a threat to a Corrections employee. Judge Bryan added a year to his 51-to-74-year sentence on charges in Douglas and Sarpy Counties that included assault.
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Three others involved in the riot that left two inmates dead and parts of the prison in ruins -- Roger Weikle, John Zalme and Frederick Gooch -- are awaiting trial.
No charges have been filed in the deaths of Shon Collins and Donald Peacock, who were beaten to death, presumably by fellow inmates. In April, a Johnson County grand jury found no wrongdoing on the part of the state.