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07-21-2007, 09:27 PM
We walk to this store all the time. :para
http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/072007kvuetaintedsoup-cb.93f3f74c.html
Austin woman accused of poisoning soup
02:23 PM CDT on Friday, July 20, 2007
An Austin woman has been charged with dropping mothballs in vats of soup at a Northwest Austin grocery store.
APD
Lea Suzan Sechler, 44, faces charged of tampering with a consumer product, which is a second degree felony.
The incidents began in May at the Randall's store on Mesa Drive . According to the arrest affidavit, a deli clerk noticed a strange smell coming from one of the soups at the store's soup kiosk. The clerk told a manger the soup "smelled like toilet bowl cleaner and/or mothballs."
The soup was pulled and the kiosk closed. It was reopened the next day.
A similar smell was reported from soup bought in the store about a week later, and Randall's store officials ordered batched of the soup tested. Tests showed it had dichlorobenzene, which is a primary component in many mothballs.
Store officials set up surveillance cameras around the soup kiosk when it reopened, and reviewed the tapes after the soup was tainted again.
Police say the footage showed Sechler opening a vat and holding her hand over it for a second. They tracked her down through her "Randall's Remarkable Card" and say she bought toilet bowl cleaner and mothballs just before the first incident. Police say her "Remarkable Card" also shows she was in the store each time the soup was tainted.
Sechler's bond was set at $100,000, and she was ordered to stay away from all Randall's stores.
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http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/072007kvuetaintedsoup-cb.93f3f74c.html
Austin woman accused of poisoning soup
02:23 PM CDT on Friday, July 20, 2007
An Austin woman has been charged with dropping mothballs in vats of soup at a Northwest Austin grocery store.
APD
Lea Suzan Sechler, 44, faces charged of tampering with a consumer product, which is a second degree felony.
The incidents began in May at the Randall's store on Mesa Drive . According to the arrest affidavit, a deli clerk noticed a strange smell coming from one of the soups at the store's soup kiosk. The clerk told a manger the soup "smelled like toilet bowl cleaner and/or mothballs."
The soup was pulled and the kiosk closed. It was reopened the next day.
A similar smell was reported from soup bought in the store about a week later, and Randall's store officials ordered batched of the soup tested. Tests showed it had dichlorobenzene, which is a primary component in many mothballs.
Store officials set up surveillance cameras around the soup kiosk when it reopened, and reviewed the tapes after the soup was tainted again.
Police say the footage showed Sechler opening a vat and holding her hand over it for a second. They tracked her down through her "Randall's Remarkable Card" and say she bought toilet bowl cleaner and mothballs just before the first incident. Police say her "Remarkable Card" also shows she was in the store each time the soup was tainted.
Sechler's bond was set at $100,000, and she was ordered to stay away from all Randall's stores.
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