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Man charged in hospital security farce
Healthcare Security Weekly, July 28, 2004
A Wyoming man is in trouble after allegedly threatening a hospital in April, the Laramie Boomerang reports.
Steven Ripley, 28, pleaded not guilty last week to charges of aggravated assault and battery, and making terrorist threats.
In April at Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie, Ripley allegedly went after a man with a carpenter's pencil, but bystanders restrained him. Days later, Ripley went back to the hospital threatening that he had a backpack containing an undisclosed substance. Ripley said that the bag contained a "code yellow" and "code black" material. The threat forced the hospital into lockdown even though nothing was discovered.
Ripley said he wanted to "open some eyes" about the lack of hospital security, according to Boomerang.
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