Pierce County Prosecutor Mark LindquistA man the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office describes as a “known Crips gang member” faces charges of intimidating a public servant after allegedly threatening two community corrections officers during a recent stay at a Tacoma’s St. Joseph’s Hospital. According to charging documents filed in the case earlier this week, 24-year-old Dejon Dewayne Michael Simpson was hospitalized Feb. 28 after suffering a stab wound to his back. Already in police custody on unrelated charges of unlawful possession of a controlled substance and theft, according to authorities Simpson became irate after two community corrections officers – assigned to act as overnight guards – refused to let visitors into his room, ripping out IV lines and at one point throwing a bag of ice across the room. Prosecutors say this tirade led the community corrections officers to restrain Simpson to his bed, which apparently only served to further infuriate him.But according to prosecutors, the kicker came when Simpson allegedly (and repeatedly) made the universal sign for a gun with his fingers and acted as though he was firing it at the community corrections officers – going as far as to make “pop, pop, pop” sounds and blowing smoke off the make-believe barrel. Authorities also say Simpson told the community corrections officers, “It’s officers like you who cause people to do things like what happened in Lakewood,” and “Because of mother fuckers like you that’s what got those four officers killed.”The Lakewood nod, of course, is in reference to the four Lakewood police officers gunned down by at a Forza coffee shop in 2009 by Maurice Clemmons. According to charging documents, both community corrections officers “took the defendant’s actions as direct threats that they would end up dead.”In response to these alleged threats, the Tacoma Police Department was notified and an officer responded to the hospital. According to charging documents, Simpsons admitted to the responding officer that he’d made the gun gestures and comments in reference to the four slain Lakewood police officers, but denied these actions constituted threats.In describing the full scale of Simpson’s alleged antics, charging documents indicate he repeatedly referred to one of the community corrections officers as “Lucifer,” “Satan,” and “the devil,” and at one point told her, “I’ll see you in hell.”Simpson also allegedly intimated to the other community corrections officer tasked with watching over him that he knew he had two boys and knew where they went to school.According to charging documents, Simpson has prior felony convictions for riot with a deadly weapon, assault, and malicious mischief. “We take threats to officer safety extremely seriously,” Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said in a press release announcing the charges. “Attacks on police officers, and the justice system, are attacks on our entire community.” According to Lindquist, Simpson was arraigned Wednesday and bail was set at $250,000.