Bainbridge man accused of assaulting women at random arrested for attempted murder of jailhouse cellmate

Published 3:08 pm Friday, January 2, 2015

The Bainbridge Island man accused of assaulting two women at random outside The Doctors Clinic last month was arrested for attempted murder Thursday after he allegedly attacked another inmate at the Kitsap County Jail and tried to gouge out the man’s eyes.

Adrian Allan Charvet was arrested in December after he allegedly assaulted two women before barricading himself in his second-story apartment on Wallace Way.

Police arrested Charvet, 25, after a nearly three-hour standoff. A Bainbridge police officer discovered Charvet yelling from his apartment window as police were responding to a report of two women who had been assaulted outside The Doctors Clinic a few blocks away on Hildebrand Lane.

Charvet has been in the Kitsap County Jail since his arrest Dec. 15.

Charvet’s latest troubles started the morning of Thursday, Jan. 1. According to court records, corrections officers at the Kitsap County Jail in Port Orchard were alerted to a fight in Central Pod Cell B-26 in the upper tier of the jail.

Charvet allegedly got into a fight with his cellmate, a 50-year-old man who was in jail for failing to appear in court on misdemeanor charges, and punched him in the head with his fists before he tried to gouge out his eyes. Charvet then allegedly tried to strangle the man to death.

“During the ongoing assault … Charvet then placed both hands around the neck of [the cellmate] and squeezed with such force causing the victim to not be able to breathe and left trauma around the neck consistent with strangulation,” noted a probable cause statement on the incident.

Charvet allegedly told corrections officers he was trying to kill the other man and would have done so if the officers had not stopped him.

The victim told authorities that he feared for his life while he was being strangled and “felt his eyeballs were bulging out of his head.”

Charvet was booked for attempted murder and bail was set at $500,000.

He was charged with second-degree assault for the attack in Kitsap County District Court on Friday, Jan. 2.

His next court appearance has been set for Jan. 13.