DA: Woman sentenced after coughing on people in Anderson store

One Shasta County woman was sentenced to almost a year after she pleaded to an assault case where she allegedly coughed on people.

Karen, how serious of a crime is this sort of behavior?

The district attorney's office says it's a misdeameanor.

((take mugshot)) people say tammy baldwin got up close to people in the anderson safeway and coughed on them.

Police don't know why she did this---but people i spoke to tell me it's crazy there are people who would do something like this.

I went to the safeway and found -you can't go in without a mask on.

I asked management if they remeber anything about what happened--- but they didn't seem to recall anything.

<(name not given)to be against coughing on someone intentionally, <(name not given)to be against coughing on someone intentionally, that's not only unethical and unhealthy.

That is wrong from every pint of view.

I mean we all grew up knowing if we're going to cough to turn our heads, put our hands over, you know.// (charmain gomez hits at 15 seconds)i think the pandemic has been politicized and so people feel like they have to act a certain way based on their political stance but you know, really it's a public health crisis, so everyone should be covering up.

Just this year--- anderson police say they have been called out to over 30 calls concerning baldwin.

Baldwin was ordered not to have any other contact with businesses in the anderson area.

Live in shasta county, karen alvarez, action news now, coverage you can count on.

Baldwin pleaded to five pending misdemeanor cases to charges including--- tresspassing, public intoxication, and resisting an officer.

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