A woman has been charged with deliberately coughing on a police officer in the state\u2019s south west.
\nAbout 11.15am yesterday (Sunday 2 August 2020), officers from Riverina Police District attended a home on Tarakan Avenue, Ashmont, following reports of a domestic violence incident.
\nOn arrival, police arrested a 27-year-old man outside the home, before attempting to speak with a 24-year-old woman.
\nThe woman allegedly told the man to cough on police and informed attending officers that they were both waiting on results of a COVID-19 test.
\nThe woman then allegedly moved in front of a male constable and coughed deliberately in his face, twice, before letting two large dogs off their leads.
\nThe man was released pending further inquiries and the pair was permitted to attend a COVID-19 pop-up clinic for testing.
\nAs a result of the incident, the two officers were taken for COVID-19 testing. They have since returned negative results.
\nThe woman has since been charged with not comply noticed direction re spitting\/coughing \u2013 COVID-19, stalk\/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm and resist or hinder police officer in the execution of their duty.
\nShe was granted conditional bail and is due to appear in Wagga Wagga Local Court on Wednesday 16 September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged with deliberately coughing on a police officer in the state\u2019s south west. About 11.15am yesterday (Sunday 2 August 2020), officers from Riverina Police District attended a home on Tarakan Avenue, Ashmont, following reports of a domestic violence incident. On arrival, police arrested a 27-year-old man outside the home, before attempting … Continue reading “Woman charged with deliberately coughing on police – Wagga Wagga”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}