U.S. News
Published: Feb. 10, 2011 at 7:06 PM
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A suburban Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for poisoning salsa at a Kansas Mexican restaurant, prosecutors said. Yini De La Torre, 20, of Shawnee, was sentenced to 87 months after pleading guilty to conspiring to tamper with a consumer product.
In her plea, she admitted that while working as a waitress at the Mi Ranchito restaurant in Lenexa she twice added pesticide to salsa she prepared, the Shawnee Dispatch reported. She agreed to cooperate in a case against her husband, Arnoldo Bazan, set for jury trial April 4. Bazan worked for the Mi Ranchito restaurant in Olathe until June 2009, when he was suspended.
He allegedly thought the restaurant chain's owner was responsible for his suspension and for the theft of Bazan's vehicle, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The couple allegedly hatched a plot to get even by poisoning patrons of the restaurant, Grissom said.
About 50 Mi Ranchito customers became ill, with some going to hospitals, after eating tainted salsa, which investigators found to contain methomyl, a highly toxic insecticide sometimes used on alfalfa.
It is unreal what some people do and unknown why they do what they do. Similar to putting out computer viruses. Harming people you don't even know for your own self satisfaction. Scary. Add your comments.
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