Baxter Regional Medical Center security detain man who threatened to kill them
Mountain Home AR February 13 2022
A man who crashed his car into the lobby of a medical clinic and was found by police in the building shoeless and wrapped in a blanket appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Twenty-nine-year-old Zachary Wasson of Gepp entered a not guilty plea to charges stemming from the mid-January incident.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Mountain Home police were called to the Baxter Regional Medical Center (BRMC) Bone and Joint Clinic, located along Broadmoor Circle, after a cleaning crew notified hospital security of the incident.
According to investigators, the last person to leave the clinic had failed to activate the alarm.
When BRMC security staff arrived at the clinic, they found Wasson in one of the clinic offices. He is alleged to have threatened to kill the security officers who arrived but eventually followed instructions and was detained until Mountain Home police officers arrived.
Officers found unopened syringe packages on the floor in one of the offices.
In the incident report, it was alleged that when Wasson was asked why he had smashed into the building, or if he had taken any illegal substances, he said he “felt weird” and had ingested LSD.
Wasson was initially transported to the BRMC emergency room, where he remained overnight. He was booked into the Baxter County jail the next day.
Damage to the clinic building was estimated at slightly more than $31,000.
Wasson’s was ordered to reappear March 7.
