Local News in Brief : Bid to Poison Grandmother
A 23-year-old man who, Los Angeles police said, admitted that he tried to poison his grandmother by grinding her nitroglycerin pills into her jar of unused coffee was booked on suspicion of attempted murder Monday.
Before the confession, however, the eastside market that had sold the coffee pulled all of the brand off its shelves after police said there was the possibility of contamination.
The grandmother, Irma Rangel, 67, reported finding the white substance in the unused portion of coffee Friday.
Hollenbeck Division Detective Rick Barrera searched the Rangel house and found some pills belonging to the woman that appeared to match the white substance found in the coffee. An analysis by the police crime lab confirmed that.
Barrera confronted the grandson, Alfred Sevilla, with the evidence and he confessed to adulterating the coffee, investigators said.
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