Arrest warrants are being sought on a Grand Junction man who was combative with medical staff, law enforcement officers and others on Friday afternoon. Officers with the Jefferson Police Department responded to the Greene County Medical Center Emergency Department at approximately 4:16 p.m. on reports of a fight in progress in the parking lot. An intoxicated male patient had walked away from the emergency room with IV tubes still in his arm and was fighting with subjects who were there on his behalf. Officers later located the patient, 24-year-old Michael Marlin Matthews, at the city square and he was transported back to the hospital for treatment. Matthews began resisting staff members attempting to treat him as well as the officers, striking one of them in the chest with his fist. The warrants requested on Matthews are for assault on a peace officer, a serious misdemeanor, and public intoxication, a simple misdemeanor. Additional charges are pending on those who were at the hospital on Matthews’ behalf. The driver of the vehicle, passed a field sobriety test but a consent search uncovered a smoking device that was seized for lab testing. Another man, James Matthews of Ogden, was cited for open container as a passenger in the vehicle.
