Monique Robinson

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Sterling, VA. — (WMAL) A 33-year-old Sterling woman was sentenced to three years and six months on one count of adulteration of food with intent to injure or kill.

According to the Commonwealth’s Attorney Office’s press release, Rivera Juarez admitted to trying to make her supervisor sick by intentionally tampering with the job’s coffee machine and her supervisor’s coffee, directly.

Below are details of the release:

Beginning in January 2016, co-workers of Rivera Juarez began experiencing stomach pain, vomiting, nausea, and other physical ailments. One of Rivera Juarez’s co-workers noticed that his symptoms usually came on soon after drinking coffee from his workplace breakroom. In October 2016, this victim reported his suspicions that someone was tampering with the coffee machine to his supervisor. The supervisor reviewed security camera footage in the breakroom and observed Rivera Juarez pouring Windex into the water reservoir of the office coffee maker. Rivera Juarez was immediately terminated. In a subsequent interview with a Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office Detective, Rivera Juarez admitted that she intentionally put Windex in the coffee machine in an attempt to make her supervisor sick. Rivera Juarez went on to explain to the detective that she had also put Ajax dish soap in the coffee machine on a prior occasion and that she had poured Ajax dish soap directly into her supervisor’s coffee cup.

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