Spitting beer in a patron’s face at a Cody bar recently landed a Michigander in jail for over two weeks.

Christopher Magyar, of Newberry, Michigan, served 16 days in the Park County Detention Center and received six months of unsupervised probation for a misdemeanor count of unlawful contact.

Charging documents say Magyar caused a disturbance at the Silver Dollar Bar on the evening of Sept. 11. The bar’s owner told police that Magyar was “very intoxicated” and repeatedly refused to leave. At one point Magyar left, but he returned with a Coors Light he’d purchased elsewhere and became aggressive, Cody Police Officer Brandon Tilman wrote in an affidavit. When another patron told him to go, “Magyar confronted [the woman] and, without saying anything, spit a mouthful of beer at the direction of [the woman,] striking her in the face,” Tilman wrote of her account.

Magyar — who said he spat after being pushed — was arrested for unlawful contact; Tilman alleged that the defendant spit the beer “in a rude and insolent manner.”

Magyar was unable to post a $2,000 bond, remaining in jail until Sept. 26, when he pleaded no contest in Park County Circuit Court. He was assessed $220 in penalties alongside the probation, with another 14 days of jail time suspended. While on probation, Magyar is barred from drinking and from bars, among other conditions.

—By CJ Baker