<p>NAPLES, Fla. - A homeless man received 12 years in prison for spitting on a Collier County sheriff's deputy during an arrest.</p>
<p>David Michael Hird, 41, was convicted in June of battery on a law enforcement officer.</p>
<p>Hird was arrested on a trespassing charge Feb. 18 and put into a patrol car by Cpl. Paul Boliek. Prosecutors said when Hird was in the back of the patrol car, he coughed up phlegm on the deputy. When Boliek asked what he was doing, Hird replied: "I'm trying to make you sick, man."</p>