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Camille Benson of Mississippi arrested for putting razor blades in loaves of bread at Walmart A Texas woman was arrested and charged after she hid razor blades and fish hooks in loaves of bread at Walmart stores in Biloxi, Mississippi. 33-year-old Camille Benson is accused of putting almost a dozen razor blades inside loaves of bread at two Walmart stores. Benson’s crime spree began on December 5 after a customer found a razor blade in a banana nut muffin. Investigators initially thought it was an isolated event; however, two days later, a customer at a neighboring Walmart discovered a razor...

A man who was caught on video stuffing razor blades into packages of pizza dough that were sold to multiple customers at a Maine grocery store pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday, authorities said. The shocking incident came to light in October 2020 after a customer reported finding several blades inside a package of Portland Pie pizza dough that he had bought at the Saco Hannaford Supermarket. Store employees reviewed surveillance footage and saw 39-year-old Nicholas Mitchell tampering with multiple pizza dough packages of the same brand, according to police. “When the patrons subsequently opened the pizza doughs, they discovered...

Poll is right at the top of the page. Vote at the link. Should the mother who admits posting doctor's office licking video be behind bars? Woman told her daughter to lick the tongue depressors in a doctor's office and then put it back in the jar with the other ones. She was arrested. The bond, incredibly, is only $2,500.

A shopper saw a man squirt a foul-smelling brown liquid over frozen chips in a Tesco store in Gloucestershire, Bristol Crown Court has been told. Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, of Bibury Road, Gloucester, denies squirting a mixture of urine and faeces at four businesses last May. Alison Harris told the court she was suspicious of the way the man was holding a laptop bag in the food aisle. "I was taken aback... there was a strong smell of urine," she said. "I became aware of him about three to six feet away from me in the chip aisle and thought he...

Check food bought at Safeway, FDA says The Associated Press A top Food and Drug Administration official stressed Saturday that the tampering concerns being investigated by his agency and the FBI are limited to Safeway stores in Western Washington. In an interview from Washington, D.C., Peter Pitts, an associate FDA commissioner, said he's "not sure what's being tested and what it's being tested for." But he said food items purchased recently from Safeway stores should be inspected for indications the packaging has been disturbed or "anything that might look unusual to the consumer." Items that might have been tampered with...