A 32-year-old Port Angeles man was arrested for making death threats to a nurse and a security guard early Sunday morning at Jefferson Healthcare Medical Center in Port Townsend.
Sheldon Franklin …
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A 32-year-old Port Angeles man was arrested for making death threats to a nurse and a security guard early Sunday morning at Jefferson Healthcare Medical Center in Port Townsend.
Sheldon Franklin Maloney was arrested just after 5:30 a.m. Jan. 29 near the Safeway gas station on East Sims Way.
Police were called to the hospital in Port Townsend just before 5 a.m. after a man later identified as Maloney had entered the emergency room lobby and asked for copies of various documents.
After he was given copies, Maloney then asked if he could sleep in the lobby but was told he couldn’t, according to court documents.
Maloney then said he was suicidal, so hospital staff took him into triage in the emergency room, where Maloney then allegedly asked to be taken to an inpatient treatment center or to Western State Hospital.
When hospital staff said that wasn’t possible, and offered to help get him into treatment, Malone “became verbally abusive, cursing at staff and accusing them of various offenses against his person,” according to an incident report from the Port Townsend Police Department.
As the situation escalated, security was called and Maloney allegedly said he was going to come back to the hospital with a gun and shoot the security guard and a nurse.
Maloney, identified as a transient in court papers, was escorted by a security guard out of the emergency room.
A Port Townsend police officer, assisted by deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, found Maloney at the Safeway gas station and took him into custody.
During his arrest, Maloney allegedly made vague threats to murder police officers “and later said he would kill any random white person he found, including children or grandmothers,” according to a probable cause statement for his arrest.
Maloney blamed hospital staff and law enforcement for his inability to get what he wanted, the report noted.
Maloney was jailed on two counts of felony harassment, as well as one count of interfering with a healthcare facility.
He is being held in Jefferson County Jail on $10,000 bail.
