Posted on 09/21/2023 6:16:50 AM PDT by simpson96
Police arrested a Kokomo woman earlier this week after she reportedly poisoned her husband’s food with lorazepam.
Sarha Steele, 36, is now facing charges of attempted murder, a level 1 felony, and criminal recklessness, a level 6 felony, per online court records.
Her charges stem from an incident that occurred around 7 p.m. Sept. 16 inside a residence in the 800 block of South Bell Street.
When officers arrived on scene, they located a 34-year-old male slumped over in a chair in a front room, court documents noted, and investigators said he had a plastic bag with a white crystal-like substance on his lap.
Police added there also appeared to be the same type of substance on a table directly in front of where he was sitting. Further testing concluded the substance was methamphetamine.
As part of their investigation, authorities interviewed several witnesses at the scene, including Steele, the alleged victim’s wife.
During her initial interview with police, Steele reportedly told law enforcement officers that she recently contacted the Kokomo Police Department in reference to alleged abuse by her husband.
Then, according to court documents, Steele told investigators that she “took matters into her own hands.”
Steele then confessed to investigators that she put over a dozen of her prescribed lorazepam pills into her husband’s hamburger, court documents stated, and she gave authorities the bottle of those pills that were still in her pants pocket.
According to the National Institutes of Health, lorazepam is a prescribed medication that can be fatal if ingested incorrectly and then left untreated.
Investigators also spoke with two additional individuals who were at the scene, and they reportedly both told police they observed Steele give a plate of hamburgers to her husband, though they did admit they did not see her cooking nor putting the medication into the food.
Steele — who was transported by ambulance to an area hospital due to a dog bite she sustained that day — also spoke about the incident with paramedics, court documents indicated.
During one reported exchange with paramedics, Steele allegedly asked if her husband was dead.
When told that he wasn’t, Steele then “slumped over” and asked again a few minutes later if he was dead, according to court documents.
Investigators said Steele’s husband is in stable condition at an area hospital.
According to a medical report, doctors said the man overdosed on “some types of opiates and not methamphetamine,” and the man would have likely died if he had not been treated as quickly as he was at the time.
Steele is being held at the Howard County Jail on $50,000 cash bond only, with no 10%.
Anyone with additional information on the case is asked to contact the KPD Hotline at 765-456-7017 or Central Indiana Crime Stoppers at 1-800-262-TIPS. You can also submit tips by downloading the “Kokomo PD” mobile app or texting TIPKPD to 847411.
If that was my wife , I’d take that poison
She’s been reading too many Agatha Christie books.
1. Wanna kill my husband.
2. Have all this meth around.
3. That’s it! I’ll use lorazepam!
#2 entirely explains her thought processes, or lack thereof.
CC
A spouse killed in Indiana. The real perp was a one-armed woman!
In any murder the spouse is always the first suspect.
Who else knows you well enough to want to kill you?
As my family in Texas would say: “Did he need poisoning?”
Who in the house called the cops? If they don’t show up this guy’s death would be written off as a drug overdose.
And to make matter worse, Miss chatty Cathy spills her guts to anyone who was near her.
“Steele — who was transported by ambulance to an area hospital due to a dog bite she sustained that day”
The dog saw everything.
The dog called the cops because he knew this gal wouldn’t feed him! Classic
Wonder how many “natural deaths”are actually poison, that go under the radar?
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