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YESTERDAY MORNING JUST BEFORE NINE   O'CLOCK LIBERTY POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE LIBERTY DAYTON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR A MAN DISTURBING PATIENTS. ACCORDING TO LIBERTY POLICE PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER HUGH BISHOP, LAWRENCE HUBERT, 28 OF LIBERTY WAS GOING FROM ROOM TO ROOM WITH A BIBLE INSISTING ON PREACHING TO PATIENTS ASKING IF THEY WANTED TO BE SAVED. WHEN POLICE TRIED TO GET MR. LAWRENCE TO LEAVE, HE RESISTED AND BEGAN FIGHTING LAWMEN.  OFFICER HUGH BISHOP SAID IT TOOK SEVERAL LIBERTY OFFICERS WITH ASSISTANCE FROM LIBERTY COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES TO OVERPOWER THE MAN. POLICE BELIEVE LAWRENCE HUBERT TO BE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF PCP, OR Phencyclidine, A POWERFUL HALLUCINOGENIC THAT ACCORDING TO MEDICAL WEBSITES CAN CAUSE acute anxiety and a feeling of impending doom; other Users COULD EXPERIENCE paranoia and violent hostility, and FOR  some produces a psychoses indistinguishable from schizophrenia. LAWRENCE HUBERT WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH RESISTING ARREST. OTHER POSSIBLE CHARGES ARE PENDING THE OUTCOME OF THE POLICE INVESTIGATION.