A Goshen man who claimed to have coronavirus coughed on a police officer during his arrest. It happened during a struggle with police.
Officers were called to Brookside Manor on Wednesday, April 8, on a report that Robert Smith, 33, punched one woman in the eye and tried to choke another when an argument erupted during a game of Uno.
The struggle with police began when the arrived, while he was in the car heading to the hospital for treatment and then, at the jail, according to 95.3 MNC’s reporting partners at The Elkhart Truth.
It was at the hospital when investigators say Smith claimed to have COVID-19 and coughed near an officer.
