Brandon police have arrested a 26-year-old man after they say emergency-room nurse was spat on and assaulted at a hospital early on Monday morning. 

Just after 2 a.m. on Monday, Brandon Police Service officers were called to the Brandon Regional Health Centre about a report that a man had spit in a nurse's face, grabbed her around the neck in a chokehold and attempted to stab her with a needle, according to a news release issued later on Monday.

Police say the nurse was able to escape without phy…