By Jim Clark

Police, fire and EMT units responded to a report of a sick person at the Lechmere Car Wash on McGrath Hwy. last Saturday evening.

Once there, respondents learned that a man who reportedly appeared to be intoxicated was complaining of chest pains. It was decided that he would be taken to the hospital by ambulance.

The man’s sister, Jeanne Monaghan, 55, who police reportedly believed was also intoxicated, expressed interest in accompanying her brother to the hospital.

Monaghan was invited into the ambulance that would be carrying her brother to the hospital, but she reportedly became upset with one of the EMTs and began to behave abusively.

Monaghan was reportedly asked to exit the ambulance but initially refused to do so. She was eventually taken out of the ambulance and was told that a different one would be taking her to the hospital because the EMTs in the first one did not feel safe in her presence.

After the second ambulance arrived Monaghan was escorted to it by a police officer and another EMT, but she reportedly pulled away, striking the EMT in the process.

She reportedly began screaming that she wanted to be transported along with her brother because she was the only one who cared about him.

Monaghan reportedly dropped to the ground and continued to scream and punch the emergency responders, telling them that she wanted to go with her brother, that they were going to let him die, and that they didn’t care.

Monaghan was reportedly once again assured that she would be taken to the hospital, but that she could not go in the same ambulance that he was in.

According to reports, Monaghan continued to punch and scream and refuse to calm down and cooperate. She was eventually put into handcuffs and placed under arrest, charged with assaulting ambulance personnel.