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Former Juvenile Jail Guard Arrested

POSTED: 2:24 pm CDT September 7, 2010
A former employee at the Caddo Juvenile Detention Center in Shreveport faces charges he battered an inmate without justification.

Dale Smith, 56, of the 1000 block of Dalzell Street, was issued a summons to appear in court to answer simple battery charges, Caddo sheriff's investigators said.

Smith is accused of knocking a 17-year-old inmate to the ground and choking him following a verbal altercation between the two. The incident occurred in May, investigators said.

Smith was fired from his job, deputies said.
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