Illinois woman claiming coronavirus allegedly spit in nurse's face
05/16/2020 5:50 am PDT
via WGN:
AURORA, Ill. (WGN) -- Police in Aurora arrested a woman Monday who allegedly claimed to have coronavirus and spit in a nurse's face.
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Cynthia Meyers, 33, of Oswego, was arrested Monday around midnight after police believed she spit in a nurse's face because she didn't want to complete her discharge paperwork. Police said Meyers checked herself into Mercy Hospital and claimed to have coronavirus.
Police said after refusing to complete the paperwork, she lunged toward a nurse and spit in her face.
She has been charged with aggravated battery to a nurse, a Class 3 felony.
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