Assault in hospital

WARREN

Brian S. Mechling, 51 of Pangborn Street, Leavittsburg, was arraigned on an assault charge Friday in Warren Municipal Court after two Trumbull Regional Medical Center employees reported Mechling assaulted them in the hospital’s emergency room earlier Friday.

Police were called at 12:45 a.m. for two employees who were injured. Mechling was calm and restrained to a bed when officers got there.

But a female, 38, said Mechling, who was there to detox from opioids, attempted to flee from the building and threw her against a wall, closed her arm in the door and broke her cellphone.

A male employee, 56, said Mechling tried to punch him but missed. The employee turned his back, and Mechling punched the employee in the back of the head and neck, police said.