A New Jersey man who coughed on a grocery store employee and then claimed to have the coronavirus has been charged with a litany of crimes, including making terroristic threats.
The man, whom police have not named, got into a confrontation with a Wegman’s employee sometime on Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy said at a Tuesday press conference. The governor said that the suspect “coughed on the woman and told her after doing so that he had coronavirus” and announced that the individual is being charged with making terroristic threats, harassment, and obstruction of justice.
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Police arrived at the Wegman’s, and the suspect refused to give law enforcement officers his name or driver’s license for more than 40 minutes, according to Fox 5 NY.
The United States’s total confirmed coronavirus cases exceeded 50,000 on Tuesday afternoon. Additionally, there have been 3,675 cases in New Jersey, which is second only to New York for cases, and the state’s death toll reached 44 people, according to CBS 3 Philly.
