A man experiencing a mental health issue behaved erratically and grabbed a woman he didn\u2019t know, police charge.<\/p>\n
Trevor Blauth, 30, refused to comply with police who responded to the incident at the Wright Center in Scranton at about 4 p.m. on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n
After he was transported to Geisinger Community Medical Center for evaluation, he continued to resist officers and staff and spit on an officer.<\/p>\n
Blauth, of 26 Sawmill Road, Equinunk, is charged with aggravated assault, assault of a police officer and reckless endangerment of another person.<\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint:<\/p>\n
Officers found Blauth acting manically. He grabbed onto a woman he claimed to know, but the woman said she didn\u2019t know Blauth.<\/p>\n
As officers put a handcuffed Blauth into a patrol vehicle, he repeatedly stated he had been raped by a deity.<\/p>\n
Once at the hospital, Blauth became aggressive with officers, nurses and security. He refused to walk and attempted to plant himself in the hallway.<\/p>\n
As officers assisted him into a room and onto a bed, he kicked and thrashed. He resisted as officers and staff tried to restrain him.<\/p>\n
Blauth spit in Officer Michael Carroll\u2019s face, getting saliva in his eyes and mouth.<\/p>\n
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday before District Judge Joanne Corbett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man experiencing a mental health issue behaved erratically and grabbed a woman he didn\u2019t know, police charge.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1466,8587,2296,178,180,179,17697],"class_list":["post-27020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-geisinger-community-medical-center","tag-police-charge","tag-police-officer","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-trevor-blauth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}