Plant Worker Arrested For Putting Pine-Sol In Coworker’s Drink

A 50-year-old worker at J & A Grinding has confessed to lacing a coworker's drink with a cleaning liquid.Curtis Malloy was an employee at the industrial tool plant in Delaware when he confessed to adding Pine-Sol to a coworker’s beverage after a nine-month long investigation. He told the authorities that the female coworker had teased him, so he spiked her drink and now he's facing a felony.According to a report from the Delaware News Journal, Malloy’s coworker alerted police after her beverage smelled like Pine-Sol in April 2019. She believed that Malloy had been tainting her drinks for a while. According to court documents, the police sent a sample to the crime lab which found isopropyl alcohol, a chemical found in Pine-Sol. In security footage, Malloy was seen at the woman's desk during suspicious times, and in an interview with detectives, he admitted pouring Pine-Sol into his co-workers drink. Malloy has since quit J&A, and faces charges of one count of adulteration. Adulteration is typically a Class G felony punishable by up to two years in prison unless it is proven that Malloy caused the coworker physical injury or illness.Unfortunately, this isn't the first time that we've seen a case of workers poisoning coworkers. In March 2019, a 56-year-old employee at ARI Armaturen in Germany received life in prison for sprinkling mercury and cadmium on sandwiches in the break room. And in April, a 32-year-old engineer at Berkeley Engineering and Research in California was arrested for attempted murder for putting cadmium in a coworkers water bottle. According to its website, J & A Grinding, based in Newark, Delaware, specializes in industrial tool sharpening and grinding. We reached out to J & A, but as of presstime the company has not responded to our request for comment.