Missouri woman accused of spiking husband's Mountain Dew with weed killer and insecticide
A Missouri woman accused of spiking her husband’s Mountain Dew with Roundup weed killer and insecticide repeatedly to be “mean” to him has been charged with multiple felonies, authorities said.
A Missouri woman accused of spiking her husband’s Mountain Dew with Roundup weed killer and insecticide repeatedly to be “mean” to him has been charged with multiple felonies, authorities said.
Michelle Y. Peters, 47, of Lebanon, is accused of secretly putting Roundup in the 2-liter bottles of Mountain Dew her husband stored in a garage refrigerator during May and June. On Sunday, she also allegedly laced the beverage with insecticide, according to the Laclede County Sheriff’s Office and a redacted probable cause statement of facts filed this week by the sheriff’s office.
Peters was arrested Monday and is formally charged by county prosecutors with first-degree assault and armed criminal action, both charges are felonies, court documents said.
She was being held on no bond Friday afternoon at the Laclede County Detention Center, a representative of the jail said.
It was not immediately clear if Peters had an attorney.
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