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'Belligerent' Hospital Patient Assaults Nurse, Security Guard In Berks County, Police Say 'Belligerent' Hospital Patient Assaults Nurse, Security Guard In Berks County, Police Say
'Belligerent' Hospital Patient Assaults Nurse, Security Guard In Berks County, Police Say A belligerent hospital patient was arrested after assaulting a nurse and security guard in Berks County, authorities said.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.