JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing several charges after an alleged incident involving police and emergency personnel at Onslow Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n
According to charging documents, 54-year-old Billy Joe Riggs is charged with felony malicious conduct by a prisoner involving exposure, felony malicious conduct by a prisoner involving bodily fluid, communicating threats, disorderly conduct, and two counts of assault on a government official or employee.<\/p>\n
The documents allege Riggs exposed himself to officers while he was a prisoner and threw bodily fluid at an officer.<\/p>\n
He is also accused of threatening to physically injure another person, using abusive language that caused a public disturbance at the hospital, kicking an officer in the arm, and acting aggressively toward an emergency medical services employee.<\/p>\n
Riggs remains at the Onslow County Jail without bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Aug. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing several charges after an alleged incident involving police and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-373441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}