MIAMI – A 49-year-old woman was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Tuesday accused of trying to poison her live-in boyfriend of about three years in Miami-Dade County.
A man became suspicious when Ivette Diaz told her a tortilla she was eating was way too spicy, and she declined to drink from his tea, according to the police arrest report.
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The man told police officers that when he drank from the tea his throat started to burn, and it was then that he realized that Diaz had poisoned it, according to the police report.
They were both home near the Redland area of Southwest 158 Place and 281 Street when he left his tortilla and tea unattended to talk to his employer, according to police.
The man reported the tea smelled of bleach, so he poured it into the sink and saw “the remnants of a concentrated bleach tablet he uses for dissolving into 5 gallons of water, in his cup.”
Diaz allegedly told her boyfriend she thought that it was sugar, but he said she was lying because they kept the sugar in the upper kitchen cabinet and the concentrated chlorine tablets under the kitchen sink.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took the man to the hospital and police officers took Diaz to be questioned by special victims detectives.
Miami-Dade correctional officers booked Diaz shortly before 2:15 p.m., on Friday at TGKCC on a charge of poison food or water, a felony of the first degree. Diaz appeared in court on Saturday and a judge denied her bond and granted an order for pretrial detention.
Miami-Dade court records show Diaz pleaded not guilty on Monday, her pre-trial detention hearing is on March 1 and her arraignment on March 15. Circuit Judge Teresa Pooler is presiding over the case.
Detectives were asking anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.