A man in jail awaiting trial on 12 felony sex charges now has two more felony charges. Lance Keith Shahan, 20, of Alva has been in jail in Alfalfa County since the 12 felony charges were filed in January. Those felonies involved a 12-year-old girl.
In February and March a couple of misdemeanor charges for possession of contraband in a county jail were added.
On Aug. 24, Shahan was charged with two felony counts of possession of contraband weapons by an inmate. He was also charged with a misdemeanor of malicious injury to property – under $1,000.
According to court records, on Aug. 17 about 10 a.m. Alfalfa County Jail Administrator Sanders asked for some help conducting a shakedown of the jail.
Deputy George Liebsch and Jailer Fred Pitter went into cell 4 and started searching. They took the bed sack off the mat on the bottom bunk. Liebsch noticed the mattress had a rip in the seam. He pulled the foam of the mattress apart and found a piece of steel that appeared to be part of a tweezers that had been broken in half. He also saw another rip in the bottom of the mattress. They found a plastic knife with a white rope handle that was made of a jail-supplied comb.
Shahan had been assigned to and living in this cell since Aug. 8. Two witnesses wrote statements stating that Shahan had said that he thought he needed something to protect himself from other inmates due to his charges.
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