Crime & Safety
Man Claims to Have AIDS, Spits on Cuyahoga Falls Officer: Crime Blotter
The following information was supplied by the Cuyahoga Falls Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Monroe Falls man faces a felony count of "harassment by an inmate" after spitting on a police officer and telling the officer he has AIDS or HIV.
According to a Cuyahoga Falls police report, the 30-year-old man was charged with resisting arrest, a second-degree misdemeanor, and harassment by an inmate, a fifth-degree felony.
Police had pulled the man over under suspicion that he was driving under the influence.
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And, according to the report, the man "punched, pushed and pit at the officers while resisting his lawful arrest" about 10:15 a.m. March 1.
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