Texas teen sought after posting threatening video about spreading COVID-19

4years ago

Carollton news, Texas news.

Carollton police are asking for people’s help in locating an 18-year-old woman who said on a Snapchat video she had the coronavirus and is going to spread it.

Lorraine Maradiaga wasn’t home when officers responded to her threats. She is expected to be charged with making terroristic threats upon arrest: “We have no confirmation Maradiaga is actually a threat to public health,” police said. “We’re, however, taking her social media actions very seriously.”

A first video shows Maradiaga arriving at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing unit with a nurse telling her to stay home. In the following video, she can be seen at a Walmart, threatening: “I’m here at Walmart about to infest every (expletive) because if I’m going down, all you are going down. If you want to get the coronavirus and die, call me.”