{"id":1090265,"date":"2022-01-17T12:33:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T18:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1090265"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:33:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:33:01","slug":"woman-faces-two-charges-in-reported-covid-coughing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1090265","title":{"rendered":"Woman faces two charges in reported COVID\/coughing incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/cough-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1090266\" \/>ORE CITY &#8212; An East Texas woman arrested for DWI Saturday night had an assault charge added after police say she claimed to have COVID-19 and coughed directly into a jailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face. According to our news partner KETK, the Ore City Police Department says Darla Ann McCurry was pulled over around 10:30 p.m. Saturday for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153failing to drive in a single lane.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The department wrote that the officer smelled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a strong odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The initial charge followed a field sobriety test. While being booked into the Upshur County Jail, McCurry claimed to have COVID-19, turned toward a correctional officer, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deliberately coughed in his face,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to a police statement. McCurry was then charged with assaulting a public servant. She faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if convicted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORE CITY &#8212; An East Texas woman arrested for DWI Saturday night had an assault charge added after police say she claimed to have COVID-19 and coughed directly into a jailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face. According to our news partner KETK, the Ore City Police Department says Darla Ann McCurry was pulled over around 10:30 p.m. Saturday for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1090265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman faces two charges in reported COVID\/coughing incident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1090275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/cough-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Woman faces two charges in reported COVID\/coughing incident","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:18:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/01\/cough-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Woman faces two charges in reported COVID\/coughing incident","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1090265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090290,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090265\/revisions\/1090290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1090265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1090265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1090265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}