Two members of an ambulance crew who were called to assist a man were assaulted by the man before police could intervene Monday afternoon.

 
 
The crew was called to help Johnny Lee, 25, who was reportedly losing and regaining consciousness.

Lee reportedly struck the two emergency medical technicians, Pam Redix and Cheryl Smith with his fists, and tried to break Smith’s arm while he was strapped to a gurney in the ambulance.

Following a court hearing Wednesday, Circuit Judge Berlin Jones ruled prosecutors had probable cause to charge Lee with two counts of second-degree battery and told Lee that additional charges could be possible.

Reading from an affidavit from police vice and narcotics Detective J. R. Harrell, Deputy Prosecutor Rik Ramsey said police and emergency medical personnel were sent to 6004 Cobb St. in the Dollarway area at 5:15 p.m. Monday, to check a report that a man sitting in a camper was “in and out of consciousness.”

 
Ramsey said Jones was put on a gurney and into the back of the ambulance where Redix and Smith began to treat him. A few minutes later, Harrell and other officers received information that a patient was “being combative with emergency personnel,” and went back to the scene.

Smith told police she was trying to care for Lee “when he grabbed her left arm and right arm, held them, and hit her partner in the face with his fist.”

She said Lee then released one arm, and bent the other as though trying to break it, and officers reported seeing redness and swelling on Smith’s arm, Ramsey said.

Redix told police Lee “grabbed her partner and tried to break her arm, and hit her (Redix) in the face and chest.”

Once police arrived, they were able to restrain Smith, who was taken to Jefferson Regional Medical Center for treatment before being taken to the county detention center.

Asked by Jones, Ramsey said the report did not indicate what caused Lee’s condition, and in court Wednesday, Lee claimed that “he didn’t remember anything until he woke up in the hospital.”

Lee was placed on probation in another division of the court in December 2009 and had been released from the detention center on Sunday after serving 10 days for violating a condition of his probation and testing positive for drugs.