KINGSTON – An Esopus man who is incarcerated in the Ulster County Jail on assault charges, faces new crimes for allegedly harassing a correction officer by threatening to stab the officer.
Niaki Dial threatened the use of a shank leading to officers searching his living quarters and finding a makeshift weapon under his mattress.
Investigators said Dial had fabricated it out of a piece of broken plastic and sharpened it.
A short time later on the same day, Dial took a cup with urine and threw it at corrections officers.
Dial was charged with felonies of promoting prison contraband and aggravated harassment of an employee by an inmate. He was also charged with a misdemeanor of criminal possession of a weapon.
Dial remains incarcerated in the Ulster County Jail and will be arraigned on the new charges in Kingston City Court at a future date.
