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Mayerthorpe RCMP charged two people exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 with assaulting police after they coughed on officers Saturday.

Jayden James Topley, 20, of Lac Ste-Anne, and Charlotte Gileen Mills, 35, of Barrhead County, have been charged with multiple offences, including assault and mischief under $5,000. Mills was also charged with resisting arrest.

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Police located Topley, who was exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, after responding to a complaint early Saturday morning of a suspect attempting to break into a house and causing mischief to vehicles, according to an RCMP release.

During his arrest, Topley allegedly coughed into an officer’s face. RCMP transported him to hospital to be examined for a pre-existing injury not related to his arrest.

While at the hospital, a woman visited the suspect, but she became disruptive and had to be escorted out of the hospital, at which time she also allegedly coughed on one of the RCMP officers.