Troopers: Youth detainee faces assault charges after chair attack

The Johnson Youth Center is a state juvenile detention facility in Juneau. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
Alaska State Troopers report a teenager at Juneau’s juvenile detention center hit an employee over the head multiple times with a chair Saturday night.
In an online dispatch, troopers said assault charges are pending and that the 51-year-old victim was taken to Bartlett Regional Hospital for treatment.
Johnson Youth Center superintendent Jess Lujan got the call Saturday night.
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