FRAMINGHAM - A Framingham man, initially�arrested for shoplifting on Friday,�later assaulted two cops, tried to strangle himself and�taunted officers by eating�his own excrement, a prosecutor said on Monday.

David Blanchard, 21, was�arrested�at 4:11 p.m. after he stole a pair of Adidas sneakers from Kohl's, prosecutor Laura Montes during Blanchard's Framingham District Court arraignment.

Once Blanchard arrived at the Framingham Police station, things took a turn for the worse, she said.

"It started with a simple shoplifting and then evolved into something else with assaults on police officers and all the fecal matter involved," Montes said.

During�booking, Blanchard became upset when the bail commissioner set his bail at $2,500. He was allowed to make a phone call, but when he refused to tell the person on�the other end�that the call was recorded, officers hung up.

"The defendant pushed the sergeant (Michael Esposito) into a cinderblock wall and attempted to flee," Montes said.

Other officers intercepted Blanchard, and he assaulted a second officer, Montes said.

When Blanchard was in his cell, he repeatedly tried to choke himself with his T-shirt, and then wedged it into a gap in the cell door and tried to hang himself, the prosecutor said. When officers stopped him, he got into a fighting stance, and officers had to twice shock Blanchard with a Taser.

Blanchard continued his defiance, Montes said. He defecated in his hands and then threw it at the security camera and then threw it all over the cell. Officers moved him to a second cell, where Blanchard continued to throw feces, Montes said.

When Blanchard was moved to the third cell, he again started throwing feces. When an officer said, "No one's buying it," meaning that Blanchard was trying to be sent to the hospital, Blanchard became angrier.

"He then placed a ball of feces in his mouth and began chewing and said, 'How about now?' " Montes said.

Blanchard was taken to�MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham for a mental health evaluation. Hospital staffers�cleared him and sent him back to the police station.

Police charged Blanchard with shoplifting, two counts of assault and battery on a police officer and two counts of wanton destruction of property.

Montes asked Judge Martine Carroll to hold Blanchard on $2,500 bail on the new case and to revoke his bail on four open cases. In those cases, all from last year, he faces numerous assault charges including assault and battery with a rock and assault and battery on a disabled person.

Blanchard's lawyer, David Levinson, argued that Blanchard should be sent to a hospital for psychological care.

"This is a matter that started as a shoplifting and unfortunately took a wrong turn," said Levinson. " There are obvious mental health concerns."

Carroll revoked Blanchard's bail on all the open cases, as also ordered him held for a probation violation hearing. She did not set bail on the new case.

Blanchard is due back in court on March 13 for a pretrial conference.

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