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CBS News-More than 1,100 students at Miami University in Ohio have tested positive for coronavirus since mid-August. But even after testing positive, a group of students was caught on camera hosting a large house party over Labor Day weekend, breaking quarantine rules.
An officer with the Oxford Police Department arrived to break up a house party over the weekend that violated capacity rules, which currently allow gatherings of no more than 10 people. When police arrived at the house, several students were sitting on the porch, unmasked, drinking and listening to music.
Despite allowing 20 people inside the house, the hosts of the party maintained they were following guidelines. According to the officer's body-camera footage, he warned the students that they were violating safety guidelines before running one student's license.
But after scanning the ID of one of the students who live in the house, he saw a note on his computer that the student tested positive for COVID-19 just one week prior.
"How many other people have COVID?" the officer asked.
"They all do," the student replied, gesturing toward his housemates. He added that some of the guests had also tested positive.
Police fined six men — five who live in the house and one visitor — $500 each.