Wellington M. Waggener is seen in handcuffs at his sentencing in December 2015.
An inmate in the Lewis County Jail has been charged with second-degree malicious mischief after he reportedly damaged a fire suppression sprinkler head twice and flooded his cell.
On Thursday at approximately 7 a.m., Wellington Miles Waggener, 27, of Centralia, was booked into the jail for second-degree malicious mischief. He was already in custody on unrelated charges.
Deputies responded to the complaint at the Lewis County Jail and found Waggener tampered with a fire suppression sprinkler head, flooding his cell and the entire ground floor of the housing unit, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies were called back a second time at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday after Waggener reportedly did the same thing again, flooding his cell a second time after damaging the fire suppression sprinkler.
The damage was estimated to cost about $900.
His most recent jail stint began last month when he allegedly kicked out a Centralia police car’s window when he was accused of assaulting another person.
Previous to that, Waggener was last arrested in July 2015 on suspicion of burglary with sexual motivation after he was accused of entering a woman’s hotel room in Centralia. While that charge was later dropped, Waggener was sentenced to nine months in jail after pleading guilty to assaulting and harassing corrections officers while he was in the jail awaiting trial on the first charge.
Waggener spent time at Western State Hospital before being declared competent to plead guilty to those charges.
About a month before his arrest on that incident, Waggener was awarded a $300,000 settlement from Lewis County for “bodily injury” sustained during a 2014 stint in the Lewis County Jail.
The settlement stems from a January 2014, incident in the jail during which officers sprayed a full 3-ounce can of pepper spray on him and for five hours did not allow him to wash it off.
Waggener told the court earlier this year that he does not have direct access to the money, which is held in trust for him.
