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NJ Customer, 73, Tangles With Police After Refusing To Wear Mask In Store
A 73-year-old Sparta man who had a previous history of disorderly conduct coughed on a supermarket employee, saying he had the coronavirus, and then spit on and tried to bite police after he was caught shopping without a face mask, authorities said.
An employee asked Vadim Sakiewicz to leave a local Stop & Shop after he walked in not wearing a mask, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
The Polish immigrant “became combative,” then coughed on a second employee who came to help, saying he had COVID-19, Grewal said.
He then resisted arrest, the attorney general said.
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