TRENTON, N.J. - Authorities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania say individuals in both states have been charged with coughing on people in stores and saying they were infected with the coronavirus.
The New Jersey attorney general's office said Tuesday that 50-year-old George Falcone of Freehold is accused of having coughed on a Wegmans food store employee at about 6:30 p.m.
Sunday in Manalapan and telling the woman he has the coronavirus. Prosecutors say the woman was concerned that Falcone was standing too close to her and an open display of prepared food, so she asked him to step back as she covered the food.
Instead, prosecutors allege, he stepped forward, leaned toward her and “purposely coughed," then laughed and said he was infected with