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EPISODE · Dec 17, 2025 · 3 MIN

Did This DoorDasher Pepper a Food Order?

from Criminal Motives · host Matthew Phifer

This Door Dasher was arrested for spraying a customer's food with pepper spray. Meet Courtney. Courtney says that she sprayed pepper spray because she saw a spider and got freaked out. And of course, people had a lot to say about it in the comment section. reading the notes. Extra spicy her when she got banned from Door Dash, banned. She needs to be arrested, which obviously in hindsight she was. Learn more about their investigation. Leslie, well, Jamie Rob, we now know that driver was arrested earlier this morning by the McCracken County Sheriff's Office. Authorities identified her as Courtney Stevenson of Keville, Kentucky near Paduca. Mark Carden sent us this video earlier this week. As we've previously reported, Carden and his wife decided to order Door Dash on December 7th when they eventually realized something was wrong with their food. Video from Mark's doorbell camera caught the suspect, later identified as Courtney Stevenson, spraying the food bag with pepper spray after dropping it off. Cardan told officials after eating the food, they both began feeling sick. This is instance was rather disturbing. Obviously, uh it's not something you see every day a Door Dash driver or a food delivery driver deliberately tampering with somebody's food. Um obviously the word got out pretty quick with the victims posting the video online. It gained a lot of attention even regionally and nationally. Police spoke to Stevenson and say she claimed she was spraying a spider and explained that she is terrified of them. Vanderberg County Sheriff's officials say they don't buy it. I am not an arachnid expert, but I I do know having been a southern Indiana resident for my entire life that spiders don't crawl around in the winter time. And the low that night was somewhere around 35°. Any spider would be warm inside at shelter and would not be uh crawling around on somebody's doorstep. And of course, people had a lot to say about this, especially after we've had multiple Door Dash incidents. And you know that saying that's like you can't eat at everybody's house. I feel the exact same way about delivery services. You do not know what the inside of that person's car looks like. You do not know what happens to your food in between them leaving the restaurant and you having the food physically in your hands. I I'm I'm I'm telling you, Door Dash drivers can be the most entitled, insensitive people you will ever meet. Y'all going to get enough of ordering Door Dash. You going to have to start getting in your car and going to pick up your own food. As tired as we are and as much as we don't be feeling like doing it, you going to have to start picking up your own food cuz these Door Dash delivery people ain't right. So, on one end, we have people saying that they are done with Door Dash and that they would rather pick up the food themselves. And on the other, we have people saying that these are just one-off incidents and that they don't have a problem with Door Dash at all. But what do you think? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.A DoorDash delivery took a disturbing turn when a driver was caught on camera spraying a customer’s food with pepper spray. The driver, later identified as Courtney Stevenson of Kevil, Kentucky, claimed she was trying to spray a spider—but investigators weren’t buying it.Video Credit:@izzyavh via TikTok@rhondatheinventor via [email protected] via TikTok

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This Door Dasher was arrested for spraying a customer's food with pepper spray. Meet Courtney. Courtney says that she sprayed pepper spray because she saw a spider and got freaked out. And of course, people had a lot to say about it in the comment section. reading the notes. Extra spicy her when she got banned from Door Dash, banned. She needs to be arrested, which obviously in hindsight she was. Learn more about their investigation. Leslie, well, Jamie Rob, we now know that driver was arrested earlier this morning by the McCracken County Sheriff's Office. Authorities identified her as Courtney Stevenson of Keville, Kentucky near Paduca. Mark Carden sent us this video earlier this week. As we've previously reported, Carden and his wife decided to order Door Dash on December 7th when they eventually realized something was wrong with their food. Video from Mark's doorbell camera caught the suspect, later identified as Courtney Stevenson, spraying the food bag with pepper spray after dropping it off. Cardan told officials after eating the food, they both began feeling sick. This is instance was rather disturbing. Obviously, uh it's not something you see every day a Door Dash driver or a food delivery driver deliberately tampering with somebody's food. Um obviously the word got out pretty quick with the victims posting the video online. It gained a lot of attention even regionally and nationally. Police spoke to Stevenson and say she claimed she was spraying a spider and explained that she is terrified of them. Vanderberg County Sheriff's officials say they don't buy it. I am not an arachnid expert, but I I do know having been a southern Indiana resident for my entire life that spiders don't crawl around in the winter time. And the low that night was somewhere around 35°. Any spider would be warm inside at shelter and would not be uh crawling around on somebody's doorstep. And of course, people had a lot to say about this, especially after we've had multiple Door Dash incidents. And you know that saying that's like you can't eat at everybody's house. I feel the exact same way about delivery services. You do not know what the inside of that person's car looks like. You do not know what happens to your food in between them leaving the restaurant and you having the food physically in your hands. I I'm I'm I'm telling you, Door Dash drivers can be the most entitled, insensitive people you will ever meet. Y'all going to get enough of ordering Door Dash. You going to have to start getting in your car and going to pick up your own food. As tired as we are and as much as we don't be feeling like doing it, you going to have to start picking up your own food cuz these Door Dash delivery people ain't right. So, on one end, we have people saying that they are done with Door Dash and that they would rather pick up the food themselves. And on the other, we have people saying that these are just one-off incidents and that they don't have a problem with Door Dash at all. But what do you think? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.A DoorDash delivery took a disturbing turn when a driver was caught on camera spraying a customer’s food with pepper spray. The driver, later identified as Courtney Stevenson of Kevil, Kentucky, claimed she was trying to spray a spider—but investigators weren’t buying it.Video Credit:@izzyavh via TikTok@rhondatheinventor via [email protected] via TikTok

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