Fugitive Assaults Deputy

A Wilkes man faces several new charges, following an incident at Wilkes Regional Medical Center that took the efforts of two officers to bring under control. Authorities were notified early this morning that 33-year old Robert Jason Landrum had sought treatment in the emergency room at WRMC, and was about to be dismissed. He had an outstanding warrant, so a hold order had been placed on him. As a deputy arrived to arrest Landrum, he had to wait a few minutes in the library. A Wilkesboro police officer who knew Landrum pointed him out to the deputy just as Landrum made it to the outside door. The deputy followed Landrum into the parking lot where he notified him he was under arrest. At that pint, the deputy says, Landrum became belligerent and abusive, ultimately elbowing the deputy in the chest and pushing him into a glass wall in t the waiting room The deputy and an employee of the hospital subdued Landrum, and he was escorted to the patrol car. When the deputy searched Landrum, he found a pair of scissors and two pairs of hemostats that belong to the hospital. WRMC officials are evaluating whether to file theft charges for those items. IN addition to the outstanding warrant, Landrum was arrested on a charge of assault on a law office.