A man accused of killing two people, including Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, said he is innocent in a newly filed case in which he is charged with having contraband in jail.
Willie DeWayne Clark was formally charged Wednesday with felony contraband for having a homemade knife, or shank, in his Denver County Jail cell. He was moved from the federal penitentiary in Englewood to Denver last week.
“I got here Friday and Monday all of a sudden there’s a spoon in my cell that they said was sharpened and that I could use it as a knife and I was never issued that spoon,” Clark told 9News.
Clark refused to talk about the murder charges pending against him, only about the far less serious contraband charge.
Court documents indicate he had an “orange spoon that had been broken and sharpened into a cutting instrument (a.k.a. shank) in his cell.”
Deputies reported they found it when they were searching several jail cells.
“It’s a big deal because I’m in here and these people can do anything to me and what happened is now they’re charging me for something else. What are they going to find next? They’re going to say they found a gun in my cell,” Clark said.
“I was issued a white plastic spoon and a paper cup. That was it,” Clark said, visibly upset.
Clark is charged in the December 2006 murder of Kalonniann Clark, who was killed days before she was scheduled to testify in an attempted-murder trial.
Clark also is accused in the murder of Williams, who was killed in a drive-by shooting on New Year’s Day 2007.
If convicted, Clark would get life in prison and could possibly face the death penalty.
Clark says he still has visits from friends and family, phone calls and privileges inside the jail. If he’s convicted on the contraband charges, according to the Denver Sheriff Department, he could lose those privileges.
“That’s not fair to me or my family,” Clark said.
