A Liter of Cola?

By ABCNEWS.comMarch 25, 2004 (RIO RANCHO, N.M.) — A Rio Rancho fast-food worker faces assault charges for allegedly serving a police officer a loogie burger.

Marcus Calderon, 19, was arrested last weekend and charged with altering food and assaulting a police officer for allegedly spitting in the law enforcement official's hamburger.

The officer noticed that some thing wrong with his burger after he took a couple of bites. After further inspection, the officer found that someone had spit in his food, Department of Public Safety officials said.

Restaurant officials fired Calderon and said their other employees were clean and courteous and that they had never experienced similar incidents.

According to police, Calderon says he was ill and may have accidentally coughed or spit on the officer's burger. Calderon was jailed on $2,000 bond and had provided blood and saliva samples to be tested for HIV and hepatitis.
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Officer Rodney Farva of the Spurbury Police in Spurbury, VT could not be reached for comment.