The suspect, armed with a box cutter, came out of a bathroom and threatened police.
WEST SPRINGFIELD – Police required pepper spray to subdue a 47-year-old Ludlow man after he allegedly threatened them with a box cutter as they tended to his injured wife in a room at the Red Carpet Inn early Monday.
Capt. Daniel Spaulding said the incident began shortly before 4:20 a.m. when they received a call regarding a woman who was going to hurt herself at the hotel.
Arriving police met with the caller who took them to a room with an open door where they found a woman on the bed with a wound to her lower abdomen. When police began to administer first aid to the woman she became combative - yelling, hitting, kicking, biting and spitting, Spaulding said.
As this was going on, Glen Reynolds, of 75 Ventura St., Ludlow, armed with a box cutter, came out of the bathroom and threatened the officers, Spaulding said.
Police disarmed Reynolds with a blast of pepper spray and arrested him, Spaulding said.
The woman, Amy Lagacy, 36, of 85 Williams St., Springfield, continued to be combative, Spaulding said. She resisted the aid of responding emergency medical personnel and was ultimately removed from the room on a gurney and taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield for treatment of her injury.
Reynolds was charged with disorderly conduct, two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of cocaine, police documents state.
Police said Lagacy will be charged with two counts of assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery on ambulance personnel and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, Spaulding said.