Man charged for blowing bloody nose on officers

A 28-year-old man faces assault charges for blowing his bloody nose on a police officer and security guards who were trying to detain him early Tuesday at Deaconess Hospital. Gavin Wolf is being held in the Spokane County Jail on three charges of first-degree assault by “poison” — the poison being his MRSA- and hepatitis C-infected blood, according to court records. Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, two security guards escorted Wolf out of a hospital building because he was acting disorderly, court records say. A police officer who was inside the building reported watching Wolf “run up to the door, bang on it, flip off the officers inside, then run away.” Then, the officer “observed the security personnel chasing (Wolf).” The officer and security guards told Wolf he was under arrest for trespassing, and Wolf responded by forcefully blowing his nose at them, records say. Officers said Wolf had told them of his diseases during a previous encounter. For lack of a definition in state law, they turned to a dictionary to determine that Wolf’s blood could be considered a poison. Wolf also faces charges of resisting arrest and second-degree trespassing for the incident. His bond is set at $10,000. Records say the officers and security guards were splattered with blood and received “exposure treatment.”