A DoorDash driver who pepper sprayed a food delivery order was arrested on a charge of tampering with food.
Kourtney Stevenson, of Kentucky, was arrested Friday and booked into the McCracken County Jail there.
She was identified by DoorDash after viral doorbell camera footage showed her spraying a substance on a customer’s Arby’s food order in Evansville, Indiana.
Stevenson is banned from the DoorDash app in every state.
She faces several charges, including consumer product tampering and battery resulting in moderate bodily injury.
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Stevenson was arrested for contaminating an Arby’s food order.
“This instance was rather disturbing,” Sheriff Noah Robinson said.
“Obviously, it’s not something you see every day, a DoorDash driver or a food delivery driver deliberately tampering with somebody’s food.”
Mark Cardin said his wife became ill after eating the food on Sunday, December 7.
Cardin checked the doorbell camera footage and saw the blue-haired driver spraying a substance on the food before strolling away.
Cardin told 14 News that his wife, Mandy, started choking and vomited after eating the food.
“I noticed my wife had starting eating and she started choking and gasping, and after she had a couple bites of her food she actually threw up,” he told WFIE.
“I had a look at the bag and seen that there was some kind of spray or something,” Cardin said. “The bag had been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera and seen that the lady who dropped the food off had actually tampered with it on purpose for some reason.”
Stevenson told investigators she was visiting her father in Evansville, Indiana, and was delivering for DoorDash when she saw a spider near the customer’s door.
She claimed she sprayed the spider because she is afraid of spiders.
Sheriff Robinson said investigators were skeptical of her story.
“I am not an arachnid expert, but I do know, having been a southern Indiana resident for my entire life, that spiders don’t crawl around in the wintertime, and the low that night was about 35 degrees,” Robinson said.
“Any spider would be warm inside its shelter and would not be crawling around somebody’s doorstep,” he added.
Tampering with food is a felony that can be punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
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NEW: DoorDash driver accused of spraying pepper spray on Arby’s food after dropping it off at a home in Indiana.
Mark Cardin says his wife started choking and gasping after she started eating the food.
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