GP Police Arrested Assisted Living Resident for Threatening Staff with Hammer
Grants Pass Police jailed a resident of an assisting living center for threatening employees with a hammer early yesterday.
The Police Department reports officers arrested a 52-year-old man for the incident that occurred at The Bridge Retirement and Assisting Living Center on SW Bridge Street on Tuesday shortly after 8 a.m..
Police said the man felt staff members were laughing at him following a series of mornings that made him increasingly upset about violations of the noise curfew at the facility. They said he retrieved a hammer from his room, walked upstairs and proceeded to yell threatening profanities throughout the facility, telling staff he was going to be "smashing faces." The incident was seen on video surveillance.
According to the report, frightened staff members locked themselves in a room to avoid being hit with the hammer and then called 9-1-1.
Responding officers seized the hammer as evidence and placed the suspect into custody. He was lodged at the Josephine County Jail for Felony Unlawful Use of a Weapon and Misdemeanor Menacing. He was being held without bail.
Posted on 6/5/24 10:59AM by Sam Marsh
