Police in a northern Vermont court room had their hands full Tuesday. Stalking suspect Patrick Andrews tried to kill himself after stabbing himself with a pen, and it led to a scuffle with officers. He has a history of mental health problems, including recent suicide attempts. Andrews grabbed a pen and tried to jam it into his wrist-- triggering a wild melee. As the security officers led Andrews from the courtroom after the initial incident, he slammed his head off a railing and the holding cell Plexiglas. Before he went to jail, court officials say Andrews was transported to Fletcher-Allen Health Care where he needed several stitches from head butting the Plexiglas. Andrews reportedly had no injuries on his wrist from the pen but he did manage to use it to cut the hand of a sheriff's deputy several times. Andrews became the focus of a police investigation after he spotted an armed robbery going down at Gracey's Store in South Burlington, ran in and scared off the gun-toting bandit. But it turns out the store clerk was a woman Andrews is accused of stalking for months. Police suspect his presence near the store at the time of the robbery was no coincidence. Based on what we know of his effort to recruit another individual to stage this armed robbery police said.