Warrant apprehension officers arrested the suspect on State Street Tuesday afternoon.
Lees DeJesusSPRINGFIELD – A 22-year-old city man, suspected of attacking a woman with a chair in the emergency department at Baystate Medical Center over two years ago and threatening responding police officers with a knife, was arrested by police Tuesday afternoon.
Lees Dejesus, of 130 Cedar St., was arrested and subdued by police during that January 2009 incident at the hospital. He pleaded innocent to the charges during his arraignment in district court and then failed to return to his pre-trial hearing.
Warrant Apprehension Unit officers John Leonard and Robert Bohl arrested Dejesus Tuesday afternoon on State Street. The suspects warrants are for two counts of assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and assault and battery.