Covid grocery licking hoax sends Texas man to federal prison

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“Those who would threaten to use COVID-19 as a weapon against others will be held accountable for their actions, even if the threat was a hoax.”

A Texas man who posted on Facebook that he paid someone sick with Covid-19 to intentionally spread the virus at San Antonio grocery stores by licking items was sentenced Monday to just over a year in prison.

A screenshot of the post was sent April 5, 2020, to the Southwest Texas Fusion Center, which then contacted the FBI bureau in San Antonio.

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