Monday, January 30, 2012 A Madisonburg woman was convicted Friday of simple assault for biting an EMT on the arm.

The Centre County District Attorney’s Office said Wendy Richards bit an EMT who was trying to evaluate Richards in the back of an ambulance.

State police in Rockview said at the time they originally responded to her West Street home in August for a report of a domestic dispute.

Police said Richards resisted arrest and locked herself in another room. She then told police she couldn’t breathe, so they called an ambulance.

Richards bit an EMT trying to take her blood pressure in the ambulance, police said.

Richards was sentenced to serve nine months’ probation for the assault.