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Steven Ray Beitzel, 31, feigned an illness at Holy Cross Hospital and was escorted to a bathroom by police where he began to assault the deputies when his restraints were taken off on Jan. 25, Montgomery County Police said.
Beitzel even tried to get ahold of a deputy's firearm, according to officials.
The officers involved sustained minor injuries while taking Beitzel back into custody, they were treated and released at the hospital.
Beitzel is being held for a series of bank robberies committed in Montgomery County and is now also being charged with first and second-degree assault, disarming a law enforcement officer, and first-degree escape.
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