Six Miami University students in Ohio were cited for throwing a house party a week after one of them tested positive for COVID-19.
Police arrived at the Oxford, Ohio, home where the gathering was held Saturday afternoon after receiving a call about a noise complaint.
The student from Miami University admitted to police that he was aware the party broke the city’s pandemic measures, which limit gatherings to no more than 10 people.
“I’ve never seen this before. There’s an input on the computer that you tested positive for COVID,” the officer tells the student, according to body camera footage. “Are you supposed to be quarantining?”
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The student said he tested positive for the virus the previous week, informing the officer that everyone at the gathering had COVID-19 as well.
“The way I interpreted the video from the body cam footage was he felt like he was at home and quarantining like he was supposed to be and that the majority of the people that were at the house had passed by and stopped by,” Oxford police Lt. Lara Fening told a local CBS affiliate WKRC.
“Some residents came over from across the street that were reportedly COVID-positive as well,”
Six men at the gathering were cited and fined $500 from the city of Oxford. Five of them live in the house, according to local reports.
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