Fargo (CSi) The Cass County Sheriff’s Office reports that Jail Inmate, 27 year old Jeffrey Andres Cofresi, has been charged in Cass County District Court with Aggravated Assault of a Peace Officer (A Class Felony B), at the time of an alleged assault, when Cofresi was being held for the Pembina County Jail.

The news release, stares that on the afternoon of July 27, Cofresi assaulted a deputy in the jail’s maximum security housing unit. The deputy was treated at a local hospital, released, and is now on medical leave.