MACHIAS – A Washington County grand jury Tuesday indicted a 33-year-old former Hampden man, who most recently was living in Harrington, and charged him with assault after he allegedly hit his cell mate in the head.

Daniel E. Mutty was in jail awaiting trial when the Sept. 10 incident occurred.

According to Assistant District Attorney Carletta Bassano, Mutty was in a cellblock in the Washington County jail when he allegedly attacked the inmate. “Mr. Mutty was upset about either the volume of voices or the noise being made,” she said. “It appears that is part of what bothered him.”

In October, a Washington County jury found Mutty guilty of aggravated criminal mischief and other crimes after he tried to run down a Calais police officer.

The jury did not accept the defense attorney’s argument that even though a police cruiser was blocking Daniel Mutty’s truck, the man believed he could leave because the officer hadn’t arrested him.

On June 14, a teller at Bangor Savings Bank in Calais discovered that Mutty was trying to pass a bad check. She notified Calais police. When the police officer called his dispatcher to check on the man’s criminal background that was when Mutty stomped on the accelerator of his truck, smashed into the front of the cruiser, jumped the bank’s parking lot curb, drove down a grassy slope, over a sidewalk and another curb and onto North Street.

Less than a quarter-mile down the road, he abandoned his moving truck and it rolled down the hill and into a parked truck. He then ran and hid in a nearby building and was eventually arrested by police.

After he was arrested, Mutty told police, that he ran because he didn’t want to go to jail.

However, after he was convicted, Mutty’s bail was revoked and he remains in jail. He is expected to be sentence on Jan. 19.