By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

A RETIRED military man who terrorized patients and personnel at the Naval Hospital early Friday morning appeared yesterday in the courtroom of Judge Joaquin Manibusan to answer the charges of terrorist conduct filed against him.
During the initial appearance of David Eugene Thomas, Judge Manibusan granted Atty. John Gorman’s motion for his client to receive immediate medical attention as Thomas appeared not in normal mental state.
Thomas, 49, remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and is scheduled for preliminary examination on May 10 at 10 a.m.
Thomas, a retired military man, entered the Naval Hospital at 12:30 a.m. on Friday and announced that he has weapons and explosives in his backpack, causing hospital workers to evacuate patients, including those in the intensive care unit and neo-natal ward.
According to Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent Adam De Ladurantey, Thomas began rambling incoherently and asked for a telephone to call 911.The 5’10” man picked up the phone and dialed 911. The U.S. Navy Hospital personnel then contacted the Naval Security Forces Detachment. Lt. Gregory Jones took the phone from Thomas and informed the operator that the Naval Security Forces Detachment had been contacted.
Thomas then walked the halls of the Emergency Room area where Jones was able to convince him to enter an examination room to obtain vital signs.
After vital signs were obtained, Thomas said he needed to use the restroom, refused the use of a bed pan or urinal, and proceeded to walk to a men’s restroom down the hall from the examination room.
Jones and three other U.S. Navy Hospital personnel followed Thomas to the restroom and found him sitting on a toilet bowl.
A Naval Security Forces Detachment officer removed his hat, prompting Thomas to question if he was being physically challenged. Thomas proceeded to wipe himself, and threw the toilet paper covered with feces at the officer.
Thomas stated that he would “grab the officers’ gun and shoot everyone with it.”
Naval Security Forces Detachment officers restrained Thomas and brought him back to the examination room. Security officers asked Thomas if they could search his backpack for anything in it that might harm them. Thomas stated: “I don’t know. There might be a knife, a 9 millimeter, an AK-47 or even a bomb in there.”
As a result of Thomas’s comments, the U.S. Navy Hospital was evacuated, including those in critical care, for approximately two hours.A search of Thomas’s backpack found no weapons or explosives. His U.S. military ID was found along with his U.S. Passport in the backpack.