LACLEDE COUNTY, Mo. —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a woman for allegedly spiking her husband's drinks with weed killer.
According to the Laclede County Sheriff, 47-year-old Michelle Y. Peters, 47, of Lebanon, Missouri, has been charged with first-degree Domestic Assault and Armed Criminal Action.
She is accused of secretly putting the chemical Roundup in her husband’s Mountain Dew on several occasions during May and June of this year.
On Sunday, she spiked the drink with insecticide. The victim began suspecting the soda was being tampered with after feeling ill. The victim provided video surveillance to the sheriff’s office, indicating that Michelle Peters was tampering with the Mountain Dew stored in a garage refrigerator.
The victim was the only one in the household who drank Mountain Dew, kept in that refrigerator. Peters was arrested after being interviewed at the Sheriff’s Office and is being held in the Laclede County Detention Center with no bond. Lebanon is located approximately 2 and one half hours east of Pittsburg, Kansas.