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Police nabs Texas woman for threatening to spread coronavirus
A woman in Texas identified as Lorraine Maradiaga has been arrested for claiming she had the coronavirus, and threatening to spread it.
The 18 year old who took to Snapchat in a series of videos to say she had been “willfully spreading” the virus was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making terroristic threats and a third degree felony.
She was later confirmed to have earlier tested negative for the virus but was transferred to the Denton County jail where she bagged a bond of $20,000.
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In a news release, the police said: “As a condition of her bond, Maradiaga is ordered to quarantine for 21 days upon date of release from custody as a precaution.”
Meanwhile, there had been over 399,900 confirmed cases of covid-19 and 12,900 deaths in the United States according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
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