- July 16, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
URBANA — It could be several weeks before the Champaign County satellite jail returns to the condition it was in prior to an Urbana man’s attack on it Wednesday.
But even the status quo for the 25-year-old building at 502 S. Lierman Ave., U, is lacking, according to Sheriff Dustin Heuerman.
“This incident has shown we need to seriously improve our security at the satellite jail, inside and out,” Heuerman said Thursday, a day after the doors to the sallyport, the drop-off area for prisoners, were breached by a man in a pickup truck.
Yevgeniy Nikolaev, 37, has been charged with a number of crimes in the wake of his alleged attack on the building and one of its employees that began around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.
State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said that after talking to someone through an intercom outside the employee…
