A young man was arrested and charged after coughing in police officers’ faces and insisting he has coronavirus as they approached him following a car crash on Sunday, March 22.
21-year-old Anthony Ponzi from Illinois coughed in cops’ faces when they walked up to his vehicle after he got into a car crash in Rogers Park.
As the police revealed, Ponzi collided with another vehicle while driving his car in the wrong way. He also exited his vehicle and assaulted the other driver.
As KTVU reported, the 21-year-old appeared aggressive when the cops walked up to his Jeep. He allegedly also coughed in their faces and insisted he had coronavirus.
After the man was apprehended and taken to a nearby hospital, he told the doctors that he was lying about suffering from COVID-19.
Following the incident, Ponzi has been charged with multiple misdemeanor charges and two felony counts of aggravated battery.
Previously, in an unrelated incident, three teens from England got arrested after it was alleged that one or more of them coughed on a senior couple on purpose amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The incident occurred in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where male teenagers aged between 16 and 19 confronted a couple and “coughed in an elderly couple’s faces.”
After the senior couple, who are deemed to be in their 70s, retaliated, the woman was hit in the face and left with a bruise.
Following the unprovoked attack, the teens got arrested, and later released, and are facing potential charges pending investigation.
According to the local police, the senior lady who was physically attacked was discharged from a hospital after having her black eye checked.
Furthermore, another passerby who attempted to aid the senior couple suffered bodily damages in the process as well, BBC reported.
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