Crime & Safety
Police: Man With HIV Spits in Officer's Face
Easton police say Nathaniel Watson spit on a police sergeant after being arrested.
A drunken HIV-positive teen spit in the face of an officer after the teen was found lying in the 8th and Spring Garden streets intersection early Saturday, court records say. The teen also is accused of spitting blood in the back of a patrol car.
Nathaniel Watson, 19 – knowing he is HIV-positive – spit in the face of a police sergeant in the police station’s booking room, the records say. Watson’s mother provided paperwork confirming her son is HIV-positive, the records say.
According to the records, police found Watson around 2:34am smelling of alcohol and with bloodshot eyes. He began yelling and swearing loudly, even after police told him repeatedly to stop. Then he spit blood in the back of the patrol car and later spit in the officer’s face in the booking room.
Watson, of 922 Northampton St., Apt./Suite 2 in the city, was charged with aggravated assault, assault by prisoner, institutional vandalism, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and liquor law violations because he is under 21 and allegedly consumed alcohol.
He was arraigned by on-duty District Judge Robert Hawke of Lehigh Townshipand committed to after failing to post $75,000 bail.