WARREN — Two men were sentenced Wednesday for unrelated assaults on staff members at different correctional facilities in Northeast Ohio, each appearing before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Cynthia Westcott Rice.

While serving a sentence at Northeast Ohio Community Alternative Program (NEOCAP), Pete Peterson, 39,

Prosecuting attorney Chris Becker said Pete Peterson, 39, grabbed a woman staff member, injuring her arm and stealing her key fob.

Peterson then ran to a restricted area and attempted to open a door. When the key fob failed, he was apprehended by staff, Becker said. The incident took place on May 14 of this year.

Peterson accepted a plea agreement Wednesday on two felony charges, third-degree escape and fifth-degree assault. He waived a pre-sentence investigation allowing Rice to go forward with sentencing him to 18 months in prison.

The sentence will run consecutive to two cases Peterson has out of Ashtabula, which he was serving time for when he committed the offenses at NEOCAP. Becker said video evidence would’ve been presented had the case gone to a trial.

Twenty-three-year-old Jawan McClendon had been an inmate at Trumbull Correctional Institution in Leavittsburg when, according to prosecuting attorney Gabe Wildman, he assaulted two correction officers, causing “physical harm to each.”

Both officers were prepared to testify about the incident, Wildman stated. Rice sentenced McClendon to 9 months in prison in addition to a sentence he’s serving from a conviction in Franklin County.