Author: Kathleen Kennedy
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Man, 36, gets wish: Arrest after punching hospital guard 
October 21, 2001 
Heather Meier; The News Tribune 
A 36-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted a nurse and punched a security guard. 
Tacoma police said they were called to St. Joseph Medical Center Friday after a patient assaulted a nurse who was treating him. Officers made a report of the incident and told the man to leave but did not arrest him, according to the police report. 
They received a second call from hospital security when the man returned a few hours later. 
When police arrived, three security guards were holding him on the ground, according to the report. The guards told police that as they were escorting the man out of the hospital, he asked if he would be sent to jail if he punched one of them. When one of the guards said probably, the man punched him the face. It took all three to restrain him, the report said. 
Police arrested the man on suspicion of third-degree assault and booked him into Pierce County Jail. 
Mother asks police to arrest girl, 11, for throwing fit 
An 11-year-old girl was sent to Remann Hall on Thursday after throwing a temper tantrum. 
The girl got upset when her mother grounded her for getting in trouble at school, a Tacoma police report said. 
Her mother told police the girl threw books and pots across a room in the family's home in the 1000 block of South Oxford Street. She then kicked a floor fan until it broke. 
The mother said her daughter is bi-polar. The mother explained she wanted to press charges because her daughter's condition was getting worse. The daughter has made threats and had similar fights in the past, the police report said. 
The girl admitted she broke the fan because she was mad at her mother. She was booked on suspicion third-degree malicious mischief. 
Man calls police after he finds military gear is missing 
A man called Tacoma police Thursday where he discovered his military gear was missing. 
When his daughter let their cat out early Thursday morning, she noticed a man leaning over near her father's van in the 900 block of North Sheridan Avenue. He left when he saw her. 
Her father's tool box was next to the van, and the door was open. The daughter put the tool box back in the van and locked the door. 
Later, when her father went out to the van, it was unlocked and his gear was missing. 
Friend worries Tacoma man with threats of stabbing 
A man called Tacoma police Wednesday after his friend threatened to stab him. 
He told police the friend was helping him move to a new apartment. They got into an argument when the man slid a telephone across the kitchen counter to him, a police report said. The man said they had been drinking alcohol earlier that day. 
Later, when the friend was driving the man back to his old apartment, they got into another argument. The friend stopped his truck and told the man he was on the verge of stabbing him. He then told the man to get out. 
The man told police his friend is on medication for schizophrenia and his condition has been worse since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. 
He said his friend has made threats before after drinking, but the man didn't believe he was in danger. 
However, he thinks his friend might carry out the threats this time because he heard him say he felt like shooting someone. He said the friend owns firearms and carries a gun. 
Reach staff writer Heather Meier at 253-967-0175 or heather.meier@mail.tribnet.com. 

Compiled from reports to Tacoma police -- © The News Tribune