Disgruntled Restaurant Workers Poison Salsa

by Bill Sertl, Posted Mar 24th 2011 @ 1:00PM

salsa at a restaurant Photo: Julie Toy

What's the matter with Kansas? Well, the salsa served at some of the restaurants in the state packed too much of a punch -- not from spicy jalapeños, but because it was laced with pesticide, reports KTKA News. Not funny, really. A married couple who worked at two different branches of Mi Ranchito restaurant, near Kansas City, was arrested after poisioning the salsa there. The husband, who confessed he was trying to get revenge for losing his job, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison with a fine of up to $250,00. His wife, the one who actually slipped in the Methomyl-based poison, has already been sentenced to 87 months in jail, with a whopping penalty of $478,000 in restitution. Small comfort for the 36 patrons, some of them children and seniors, who suffered anything from cramps and nausea on up to symptoms so severe they had to be taken to hospital.

Filed Under: Food News, Restaurants
Tags: featured, food poisoning, poisoned salsa

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 6)

3-26-2011 @10:08AM Reader said... If you clicked on the link, you qwould have found all the info you wanted:
http://www.ktka.com/news/2011/mar/23/disgruntled-former-restaurant-worker-pleads-guilty/

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3-25-2011 @2:17PM Laura said... @Ruby.... I must have missed it where in the article did it says what the nationality the couple were? I guess since we know only mexicans would ever be working at a mexican restaurant. Ignorant much? I am thinking if they were illegal then they would not be spending the time in jail....they would be deported.
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3-25-2011 @3:33PM Marc L said... Are you really that naive? These people, whether they are illegal or not, still committed a horrible crime. If they are illegals, then they would be deported after they serve their time. What good would deporting them do without punishing them? They would just sneak back into the country like they already did.

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3-25-2011 @2:51PM Annie58 said... They would be sent to jail first then deported!

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3-25-2011 @3:02PM susan said... My neighbor was sent to prison for 5 years THEN deported. The make illegals do their time before deportation.

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3-25-2011 @3:20PM Jack said... They were from Kansas ... that's all you need to know.

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3-26-2011 @10:25AM Cathy said... I agree, it doesn't matter where they were from. I did go in search of more information after reading your post. The husbands name was Arnoldo Bazan, and the wifes name was Yini De La Torre.

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3-25-2011 @3:42PM pets4anyone said...
See below and make up your own mind as to their nationality:

Arnoldo Bazan, 30, and Yini De La Torre, 19, are accused of mixing a pesticide into the salsa that sickened a dozen customers on Aug. 11 and 36 more customers on Aug. 30.

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2009/11/06/1043243/feds-charge-two-in-poisoned-salsa.html#ixzz1HdrkDDsB

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3-25-2011 @3:57PM t said... well every Mexican restaurant I have ever been to is all Mexican people waiting on you and cooking, though, I wouldn't put it past anyone that works in a restaurant to do something like this. They get tired of being treated like servants. I don't like eating out as am afraid that I will say something wrong and they will spit in my food or drop it on the ground. It is gross the way most places are ran.

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3-25-2011 @4:34PM geomcd said... Illegals aren't deported or jailed. They are given welfare, food stamps, government housing and free medical care!

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3-25-2011 @7:27PM bobbie said... When they're in prison, maybe they could work in the kitchen and poison some of the criminals who are living on our tax dollars (in many cases living much better than the taxpayers). At least they'd be doing something worthwhile.

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3-26-2011 @12:00PM placedorders said... Thet were Shawnee indians. American indians.

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3-25-2011 @9:27PM laura said... They should be made to eat the crap themselves.

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3-25-2011 @10:56PM skip said... make the guilty one eat mac donalds in prison

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3-26-2011 @1:29AM Ajax said... You don't deport killers where they can come right back across the border.

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3-26-2011 @1:24AM Bill said... wrongo dopo...

if they're illegal, they'd first serve their jail/prison time and possibly be deported after that...

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3-26-2011 @1:36AM Kathleen said... No, that is NOT correct. They are deported AFTER they serve their time. They do not get off scot free!! People who do this have NO care or feelings ofr others. All they care about is there self. We call those pople Sociopaths and because of the ;ack of parenting one in ever twenty fice people is a sociopath!! Read the bood called "The Scociopath Nextdoor"! We have one servin as our president.

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3-26-2011 @5:04AM T. Stroud said... Actually, LAURA is absolutely right...they would serve no jail time and just be deported...where they could hop the fence again and be back in our country. I heard about this type of situation several years back and I couldn't believe that was correct either...Although, it makes no sense...it is VERY true!!

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3-27-2011 @7:47AM Jordan said... If they are illegal, they will be deported after they spend their time in jail...

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3-25-2011 @2:19PM ME said... This type of act is awful but even more awful are the comments on this post. These acts can and are done by anyone not taking account their race or legal status.
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