{Beckley, West Virginia}...Damon Ripley, 43, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley, has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for illegally possessing a weapon. Ripley was found on March 8th to be in possession of a homemade knife, commonly called a “shank.” Ripley admitted the weapon contained a sharpened piece of metal, and that he tore a pillowcase and wrapped it around the opposite end of the sharpened metal to form a handle and that it was designed and intended to be used as a weapon. Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Federal Inmate Sentenced
{Beckley, West Virginia}...Damon Ripley, 43, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley, has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison for illegally possessing a weapon. Ripley was found on March 8th to be in possession of a homemade knife, commonly called a “shank.” Ripley admitted the weapon contained a sharpened piece of metal, and that he tore a pillowcase and wrapped it around the opposite end of the sharpened metal to form a handle and that it was designed and intended to be used as a weapon. 