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COOKEVILLE TN May 14 2013 — A Spencer man was arrested at Cookeville Regional Medical Center Saturday after allegedly pulling a knife and threatening someone in a waiting room.
The accused, Tobby Ray Smith, 19, of Cane Cree Cumminsville Road, Spencer, ended up getting arrested for aggravated assault and having to leave the hospital, where his wife was giving birth, and go to jail.
It was around mid-day Saturday when Cookeville Police Officer Brian Long was dispatched to the hospital on a report that an aggravated assault had taken place in the labor/delivery waiting area.
Hospital security workers gave police dispatchers a description of the suspect, Tobby Ray Smith, and Officer Long found him standing on the corner of Cedar and 4th Street when he first arrived.
He handcuffed Smith and frisked him, locating a black pocket knife in his front pocket, the officer’s report says.
A hospital security officer and the alleged victim in the case filled Officer Long in on what had happened.
A Sparta man said he was with his wife and child in the labor/delivery waiting room when Tobby Ray Smith entered the room and began using vulgar language as he complained about the hospital.
The Sparta man asked Smith to “watch his language,” and that is when Smith allegedly pulled out his pocket knife and threatened to kill the Sparta man.
The Sparta man grabbed a nearby free-standing metal sign “to protect himself and his family,” the report says.
Smith then walked away and left the hospital.
Smith denied that he had pulled a knife in the incident, the officer said.
The two men had never met before that day, and Smith told the officer that his wife was in the hospital giving birth at the time that he was arrested.
“I asked him why he was standing out in the parking lot if his wife was giving birth and he stated that he was waiting on his mother to come from Chattanooga to pick him up,” the report says.
A hospital security officer told Smith “that he was not welcome back on the hospital grounds after this incident,” the report continues.
Smith was booked into the Putnam jail, where his bond was set at $10,000.
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COOKEVILLE TN May 14 2013 — A Spencer man was arrested at Cookeville Regional Medical Center Saturday after allegedly pulling a knife and threatening someone in a waiting room.
The accused, Tobby Ray Smith, 19, of Cane Cree Cumminsville Road, Spencer, ended up getting arrested for aggravated assault and having to leave the hospital, where his wife was giving birth, and go to jail.
It was around mid-day Saturday when Cookeville Police Officer Brian Long was dispatched to the hospital on a report that an aggravated assault had taken place in the labor/delivery waiting area.
Hospital security workers gave police dispatchers a description of the suspect, Tobby Ray Smith, and Officer Long found him standing on the corner of Cedar and 4th Street when he first arrived.
He handcuffed Smith and frisked him, locating a black pocket knife in his front pocket, the officer’s report says.
A hospital security officer and the alleged victim in the case filled Officer Long in on what had happened.
A Sparta man said he was with his wife and child in the labor/delivery waiting room when Tobby Ray Smith entered the room and began using vulgar language as he complained about the hospital.
The Sparta man asked Smith to “watch his language,” and that is when Smith allegedly pulled out his pocket knife and threatened to kill the Sparta man.
The Sparta man grabbed a nearby free-standing metal sign “to protect himself and his family,” the report says.
Smith then walked away and left the hospital.
Smith denied that he had pulled a knife in the incident, the officer said.
The two men had never met before that day, and Smith told the officer that his wife was in the hospital giving birth at the time that he was arrested.
“I asked him why he was standing out in the parking lot if his wife was giving birth and he stated that he was waiting on his mother to come from Chattanooga to pick him up,” the report says.
A hospital security officer told Smith “that he was not welcome back on the hospital grounds after this incident,” the report continues.
Smith was booked into the Putnam jail, where his bond was set at $10,000.
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