I can hardly bring myself to even talk about this story, it’s just so disgusting but as sickening as it is, we need to alert people what’s going on out there.
An off-duty police officer went to Starbucks to get a Frappuccino. The Starbucks he went to was inside a Target in California. He was not in uniform, but he used his police union debit card to pay for the drink.
When he got his beverage, he left the store and drank half of it before realizing that there was a TAMPON in the drink. He went back to the store and confronted the employee about the tampon.
He also filed a police report – this is a felony.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a potential felony after a report that an officer allegedly found a tampon in his Starbucks drink.
An off duty LAPD officer reportedly found the feminine hygiene product halfway through drinking the Frappuccino which was purchased at a Starbucks location inside of a Target store in eastern Los Angeles County, California, on Friday.
Surveillance video from the store was reportedly being reviewed by detectives in order to determine who is responsible for the disgusting act which, according to California law, is considered food tampering. Anyone working at the particular Starbucks counter is considered a Target employee since the coffee shop is a licensee of Target at this location, according to Fox 11.
The officer was off-duty at the time of the incident but reportedly used his police credit union debit card to purchase the cold drink, apparently tipping off the responsible individual that he was an LAPD officer. Bill Melugin of Fox 11 reported that, upon finding the object halfway through his drink, the angry officer went back to the Starbucks location, confronting the employee about the tampering.
You can watch the video below:
According to California law, food tampering is a felony and can result in prison sentences up to five years.
Every person who willfully mingles any poison or harmful substance with any food, drink, medicine, or pharmaceutical product or who willfully places any poison or harmful substance in any spring, well, reservoir, or public water supply, where the person knows or should have known that the same would be taken by any human being to his or her injury, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, four, or five years.
This piece was written by Missy Crane on June 23, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [3] and is used by permission.