By Kim Ring
Telegram and Gazette
WARREN, Mass. — A Warren man who allegedly went berserk in a laundromat Feb. 12 was sent to a psychiatric facility for evaluation after appearing in Western Worcester District Court on Monday.
Paul S. Imbier, 59, 841 Brimfield Road, Lot 13, Warren, was charged with disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, throwing glass on a public way and two counts of assault and battery on ambulance personnel.
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The most dangerous patients are those who are disinhibited: the intoxicated, the hypoglycemic, the head injured. Court documents indicate many reports of a problem at the Warren laundromat about 3 p.m. that day, including one from a woman who had “come running in (to the Warren Post Office) stating there was ‘a crazy drunk going nuts’ at the laundromat.
When police arrived, Mr. Imbier was speaking with an off-duty firefighter EMT who’d been alerted to the problem when he was inside the Post Office. He recognized Mr. Imbier and spoke with him until police arrived.
According to a police report, Mr. Imbier had been trying to break the windows in the building and had apparently smashed a bottle. Glass and liquor littered the floor inside and out on the sidewalk, police wrote in their report.
Warren Officer Joseph A. LaFlower wrote that Mr. Imbier spoke but made no sense and then tried to pick up a piece of glass.
He said several times he would “murder all of us,” and admitted to taking a pain medication, the report said.
Police placed Mr. Imbier in protective custody, and in the ambulance to Wing Memorial Hospital in Palmer, he allegedly assaulted two EMTs who were caring for him.
At the hospital, police learned Mr. Imbier would “need to stay for a while and remain under observation and possibly go into detox.”