MONROE — Logan Kruckenberg-Anderson, awaiting his upcoming trial on charges he murdered his infant newborn in Albany, has been hit with a new felony charge while in jail.

According to a criminal complaint, Kruckenberg-Anderson, 21, at one point earlier this month, disassembled a jail issued razor blade, and allegedly hid the blade under a mattress.

Razor blades are counted and collected after use for inmate and guard safety. And that missing piece of blade prompted a shake-down in the facility that required bringing in additional manpower and at least one road deputy to accomplish.

“I asked dispatch if any of patrol was close and explained that I needed assistance with a thorough shake down of I block for a missing razor blade,” one of the correctional officers was quoted as saying in the complaint.

As a result of the rule violation, Kruckenberg-Anderson was recently back in court on a new felony charge of possession of an illegal article. A preliminary hearing on that charge is set for August 4 before Green County Circuit Judge Jane Bucher.

The latest case was filed on July 22, and the alleged incident at the jail was on July 7, according to the complaint. 

Meanwhile, a jury trial on the earlier charges is scheduled for October 27 before Bucher.

Kruckenberg-Anderson has been in Green County jail since the January 2021. Just 16-years-old at that time, Kruckenberg-Anderson was taken into custody, accused in the murder of a newborn that was fatally shot near Albany and left in the snow. 

For that crime, he stands accused of one count of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of transporting, concealing, or burying the child’s body. Kruckenberg-Anderson faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison if convicted.