Virginia: Trooper Jacob P. Gooch Resigns After Text About Coughing to Spread COVID-19

Murder probe reveals VA trooper’s texts about coughing to ‘spread corona,’ cops say

A murder investigation 2,000 miles away may have cost a Virginia state trooper his job. Jacob P. Gooch resigned from the Virginia State Police last month after writing in text messages that he pulled over a Mennonite man andgave him a ticket before coughing on him“so he would spread Corona to the wedding they were going too. lol,” the Associated Press reported. The texts surfaced during a homicide investigation in Arizona, according to news reports. Gooch’s brother, Mark Gooch, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death ofa 27-year-old Mennonite Sunday school teacherfrom New Mexico named Sasha ...

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Trooper Resigns After Text About Coughing to Spread COVID-19

Gooch's brother, Mark Gooch, is charged in the killing of Sasha Krause, a Sunday school teacher who disappeared from a Mennonite community in New Mexico earlier this year. In one text exchange in ...

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Trooper resigns after text about coughing to spread COVID-19

A Virginia state trooper has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he coughed on a driver he ticketed in hopes of spreading the coronavirus. Virginia State Police began an internal ...

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Virginia state trooper resigns after text about coughing to spread COVID-19

A Virginia state trooper has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he coughed on a driver he ticketed in hopes of spreading the coronavirus.

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Virginia trooper resigns after claiming he coughed on Mennonite to spread coronavirus

An airman charged with murder in the death of a 27-year-old Mennonite Sunday school teacher told authorities he was raised in the religion and joined the Air Force to escape a difficult, sheltered and ...

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Virginia State Police trooper resigns after text about coughing to spread COVID-19

A Virginia state trooper has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he coughed on a driver he ticketed in hopes of spreading the coronavirus. Virginia State Police began an internal ...

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Virginia trooper resigns after text about coughing to spread COVID-19

A Virginia state trooper has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he coughed on a driver he ticketed in hopes of spreading the coronavirus.

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Trooper resigns after text about coughing to spread COVID-19

A Virginia state trooper has resigned after he claimed in a text message that he coughed on a driver he ticketed in hopes of spreading the coronavirus.

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Murder probe reveals VA trooper’s texts about coughing to ‘spread corona,’ cops say | Raleigh News & Observer

The texts surfaced during a homicide investigation in Arizona, according to news reports. Gooch’s brother, Mark Gooch, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a ...

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Murder probe reveals VA trooper’s texts about coughing to ‘spread corona,’ cops say

The texts surfaced during a homicide investigation in Arizona, according to news reports. Gooch’s brother, Mark Gooch, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a ...

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