Tempe Police reported the following the incidents on Wednesday:
A 31-year-old woman was arrested Jan. 9 on the 1500 block of South Mill Ave on suspicion of aggravated assault of a health care professional, according to a police report.
Officers were called to the scene after a patient bit a nurse, claiming it was self-defense, according to the report.
The patient had attempted to resist the health professional's help when she ran out of her bed, hit the nurse 40 times and bit her, police reported.
The woman was transported Tempe City Jail and was then taken to Maricopa County Jail, according to the report.
A 22-year-old Glendale man was arrested Jan. 9 on the 600 block of South Mill Avenue on suspicion of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to a police report.
The man had stepped outside a bar to smoke marijuana out of a pipe when officers approached him, according to the report.
The man tried to walk away from law enforcement, but officers stopped him, searched him and found the marijuana and pipe, officers reported.
The man told the officers that a man standing next to him gave him the pipe, but didn't know there had been marijuana in the pipe, officers reported.
The man was transported to Tempe City Jail, where he was booked, according to the report.
Reports compiled by Sydney Greene.
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