{"id":47346,"date":"2026-04-01T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/47346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:04:24","slug":"patient-leaves-lebanon-hospital-during-suspected-mental-health-crisis-attempts-carjackings-before-safely-returned-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/47346\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient leaves Lebanon hospital during suspected mental health crisis, attempts carjackings before safely returned by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEBANON, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; A man was returned to a Wilson County hospital Wednesday morning after he was accused of attempting two carjackings while experiencing a suspected mental health crisis, according to the Lebanon Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LPD and the Wilson County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital about 7:15 a.m. for reports of a male patient, believed to be experiencing a mental health crisis, pulling a fire alarm and leaving the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers began searching the area to try and find the man and safely return him to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A short time later, LPD said the man went into the Kroger parking lot and reportedly attempted to carjack a delivery driver.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WCZWEBRKNJC6BHZCWR4ZBCEHIA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man attempted a second carjacking across the street. His target was a vehicle waiting to exit the Ulta parking lot at the traffic light, LPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies spotted the second carjacking attempt and quickly took the man into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The man was then taken back to Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are grateful for the strong partnership with our fellow law enforcement agencies and thankful this situation was resolved without serious incident,\u201d LPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, please don\u2019t hesitate to seek help. There are many resources available to support those in need. You can always call Volunteer Behavioral Health\u2019s local crisis hotline at 1-800-704-2651.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEBANON, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; A man was returned to a Wilson County hospital Wednesday morning after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32],"tags":[93,2660,558,19492,42,1379,19493,13269,19494,3661],"class_list":["post-47346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lebanon","tag-lebanon","tag-lebanon-police-department","tag-local","tag-mental-health-crisis","tag-news","tag-tennessee","tag-vanderbilt-wilson-county-hospital","tag-wilson-county","tag-wilson-county-sheriffs-office","tag-wsmv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116331247526907455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}