(Davenport, IA) -- Two Quad Cities correctional officers are facing charges following an altercation with an inmate at the Rock Island County Jail in January.
The state’s attorney’s office says the incident between a female inmate and two female correctional officers happened on January 29th. On February 2nd, Rock Island County Sheriff Gerry Bustos ordered an internal investigation, which was completed on February 25th and returned to Sheriff Bustos. The sheriff's office says further investigation into the altercation was necessary following the internal investigation.
Sheriff Bustos then requested the assistance of the city of Rock Island Police Department and the state’s attorney’s office to conduct a separate and independent criminal investigation. Detectives with the Rock Island Police Department secured all evidence, investigated the events that took place and then referred the case to the state’s attorney’s office.
The state’s attorney’s office eventually found enough evidence to file aggravated battery charges against the two correctional officers. Both officers are being charged with aggravated battery for making, “physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature and causing bodily harm to an incarcerated inmate at the Rock Island County Jail. The contact and harm alleged in these charges consisted of multiple punches and kicks to the victim’s arms, which resulted in bruising, scratches and swelling.”
On Tuesday, May 11th, Alondra Martinez and Mackenzie Martin were both terminated as employees of the Rock Island County Sheriff’s Office and both were charged. “With this difficult news, we commend those members of the Sheriff’s Department who brought this incident to our attention and requested an outside investigation,” officials with the state’s attorney’s office said in a release. “Correctional officers have the difficult task of keeping both the public and inmates safe, and we thank the many officers who bring honor to these duties daily.”