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Patient charged following alleged assault

A Warren State Hospital patient is behind bars after assaulting staff with broken glass and saying he would have “went all out” if he knew he was going to be charged.

Jason E. Haight, 29, has been charged by Pennsylvania State Police in the wake of the event which unfolded on Friday afternoon.

Police were dispatched to the state hospital, 33 Main Dr., on Friday at 1:52 p.m. “for a report of an out of control patient,” according to the affidavit of probable cause filed in the case.

Haight was located “in a hallway on the third floor of the building surrounded by staff.” Police determined Haight “had initiated a disturbance where he assaulted multiple psychiatric aides with a piece of broken glass” and “attempted to stab multiple psychiatric aides with a pen and spit on multiple psychiatric aides.”

Police learned Haight allegedly threatened staff, saying “I’ll find out where all of you live and I will kill you and all of your family,” according to the affidavit.

Police detail injuries observed, which included a “bloody scratch” on one person’s arm, another scratch on an aide’s forehead in addition to “a few lacerations on a psychiatric aide’s leg” and indicate approximately 20 people observed the incident, which was also caught on security camera footage.

Haight allegedly told police that “if he would have known he was going to be charged he ‘would have went all out.’

“Haight reported he remembered ripping a picture off the wall and throwing it on the ground and that is when the staff allegedly assaulted him but he could not remember specifics,” police further indicate in the affidavit.

Online court records indicate that Haight has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault – attempts to cause or causes bodily injury to designated individuals and four counts of aggravated assault – attempts to cause or causes bodily injury with a deadly weapon, all felonies, as well as the following misdemeanors: 15 counts of terroristic threats and one count each of institutional vandalism educational facility and disorderly conduct engage in fighting as well as four summary counts of harassment.

A preliminary hearing is set for Wednesday at 3 p.m. and Haight remains behind bars on $100,000 bail.

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