Todd Bennett, 37, was being treated at the Penn State Health St. Joseph Hospital when he became hostile and bit a registered nurse on her arm and spit in a security guard's face on July 31, Bern Township police said in a Sept. 12 news release.
The Reading man was eventually restrained by staff and arrested on aggravated assault charges, police said.
On Sept. 6, a magisterial district judge found probable cause to forward the case to the Court of Common Pleas.
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