James Coven, an inmate in the Anchorage jail, who assaulted a Correctional Officer there in 2012, was found guilty of Assault I and Assault II by an Anchorage jury on Tuesday.
It was reported on September 5th of 2012, that Coven, while incarcerated at the Anchorage Correctional Complex East Facility, assaulted Correctional Officer Sean Wnslow. Winslow was taken to the Alaska Regional Hospital where he was treated for his injuries.
It was in February of 2013 that a Anchorage Grand Jury indicted Coven on Assault charges resulting from the attack.
Coven was originally incarcerated at the complex after his conviction for the murder of two men, Christon Lee and Matthew Peterson, both 19, as they sat in their truck on Russian Jack Drive in Anchorage. The shooting occurred during a drug deal gone bad. Coven walked up to the truck, stuck the barrel of an AK-47 through the window, and opened fire on the two teens.
Anchorage Police began looking at Coven for the killings after a tipster phoned in information connecting Coven to the shootings.
Coven’s sentencing on these newest charges is scheduled to take place on February 2, 2014.