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Archae

(46,328 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 09:36 PM Apr 2013

Poisoned OJ Slipped Into Starbucks Cold Case

Source: ABC News

San Jose, Calif., police say a local woman with no criminal record replaced orange juice bottles in a Starbucks cold box with tainted ones – and they are puzzled about why she may have done it.

Ramineh Behbehanian, 50, will face charges of suspicion of poisoning and attempted murder, police said.

The Starbucks, located on the 6000 Block of Snell Avenue in South San Jose, Calif., was evacuated Monday evening after a customer spotted a woman switching bottles in the cold box at the front of the store with those in her bag, according to police.

As the witness was notifying Starbucks employees of the woman’s suspicious activity, police said, the suspect apparently overheard the conversation and fled the scene abruptly. A Starbucks employee was able to record the license plate of the woman’s car.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/04/poisoned-oj-slipped-into-starbucks-cold-case/





Now some yoyo in the right-wing noise machine will run with this story, linking this nutso woman to some imaginary "Islamic" organization.
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Poisoned OJ Slipped Into Starbucks Cold Case (Original Post) Archae Apr 2013 OP
. blkmusclmachine May 2013 #1
Or a Gypsy? cynzke May 2013 #2
Was this a dumb fraud scheme? Dash87 May 2013 #3

cynzke

(1,254 posts)
2. Or a Gypsy?
Wed May 1, 2013, 12:11 PM
May 2013

Now it may sound bigoted to asked...... but I worked for a CA insurance company several years ago and it was well known in the insurance industry that there was a criminal element within the CA gypsy community, committing petty insurance fraud through fake accidents, etc., such as slip and falls in stores and parking lots, fake pedestrian accidents with motor vehicles and even extremes where they cut in front of vehicles forcing the victim vehicle to rear end them. These con artists always claim soft tissue damage and the insurance companies are all too willing to pay out a small amount for them to go away. They were also involve in other types of cons usually where the police would not be involved, more like a civil matter involving filing an insurance claim. Don't know enough yet about this incident but was it possible she was setting up Starbucks for some kind of liability claim. Was she or an accomplice going to buy and drink one of these OJs later and threaten Starbucks with a law suit? Granted the OJ may have made someone sick but was it lethal? She could have used rat poison or something if it was the woman's intent to kill people. Just a thought.

Dash87

(3,220 posts)
3. Was this a dumb fraud scheme?
Wed May 1, 2013, 01:34 PM
May 2013

She drops the poison OJ, her friend comes in 5 minutes later and buys it. The friend sues and they share the money. Stranger things have happened.

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