Posted on 06/09/2013 10:53:01 AM PDT by JCG
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – The attorney for a 50-year-old woman accused of placing rubbing alcohol in two bottles of orange juice at a Starbucks in San Jose last month said Friday she is “delighted” that she will not face criminal charges.
San Jose criminal lawyer Dennis Lempert said Ramineh “Romi” Behbehanian, who was suspended by her employer due to the case, “expressed her appreciation” to him.
“We are gratified that my client’s position has been vindicated and it is unfortunate that people hysterically respond to a situation and caused damage to a highly qualified, innocent scientist who has done nothing wrong,” Lempert said.
“She said she is delighted about the results” of tests showing nothing harmful was found in the juice bottles, Lempert said.
In a case that made news nationwide, Behbehanian was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and felony poisoning following the incident at a Starbucks at 6009 Snell Ave. on April 29.
A customer said Behbehanian switched two bottles of orange juice in the cafe’s refrigerator with her own tainted bottles that she brought to the store in a Starbucks bag, according to police.
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First, and perhaps most important -- is she a Muslim?
Is the San Jose fire department's hazmat team so incompetent that they can't distinguish vinegar or ethanol from rubbing alcohol? (Hell, I believe I could make that determination by taste and smell alone.)
Since the act was witnessed by a customer, a Starbucks manager and possibly as many as two baristas, it's pretty clear she did something. Wouldn't she be guilty of food tampering at the very least?
Finally, if you live in San Jose do you sleep well at night?
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Don’t most businesses like this have security cameras, that in part capture the activity near the cash registers?
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LOL--necessary to prove guilt.
Good point. The detectives on "The First 48" solve a case or two every week using security camera recordings.
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Let’s assume she wasn’t intentionally trying to ‘poison’ the customers.
What does that leave? (using Occams Razor)
She steals OJ from her employer all the time, to supply her home. She had some bottles that had been in her fridge for a long time. So... she took them to work with her to ‘exchange’ them for Fresh bottles.
So, (if true) while she’s a crook, she’s just not an attempted murderer.
Its amazing that she didn’t face some type of charge. It doesn’t matter what her intent was. The act was willful and wanton and done with reckless disregard for life. That is a crime. Its how they charge drunk drivers who kill people. Most of them don’t intend to do it but they drank and drove. Same with this woman — she did something that she should have known would harm people. She should have been charged with something.
Meaning?
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Oh, OK. I’m game!
What do you think it means?
Jumbo thought the train was a one-eyed monster and so he charged?
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Is no one troubled that she switched out the bottles at all? A chemist??? And what undetected horrors might lurk within? At a MINIMUM, product tampering should be charged. She had no business helping Starbucks restock their shelves. So what if a customer would spit out the product based on its taste. Who is to say that the damage wouldn’t already be done? Something stinks about this and it isn’t the orange juice.
Her name sounds Armenian. According to the Company, Armenia is 98.7% Christian and 1.3% nature worship. Mooselimb penetration is zilch.
It appears she's nothing but a petty thief who swapped her own spoiled orange juice for fresh juice and got caught and subsequently put through the wringer by an incompetent police chemist unable to distinguish between isopropanol and ethanol.
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Here in jersey that would be a cocktail at local
resturant
State just accused some 30 restuarants of watering the
booze and in some cases replacing it with rubbing alcohol
Including 13 TJIF.......
How did that happen? "booked...County’s jail...released several days later...never charged" I thought it was necessary that a person be charged with a crime before you went to the lockup. Something sounds hinky. She never filed a suit for "false imprisonment", payback to the DA for dropping charges (that were never filed)?
Under the proper conditions, orange juice containing sugar will produce ethyl alcohol which can produce ketones like acetone. Acetone is found in the blood stream of diabetics with uncontrolled blood sugar. It is produced as a metabolic product of sugar. It is therefore possible to find both ethyl alcohol and acetone under naturally occurring circumstances.
Isopropyl alcohol is not produced by fermentation of sugars, rather it is produced by combining water and propene in a hydration reaction. It may also be produced by hydrogenating acetone. Similarly, isopropyl alcohol can be oxidized to acetone. Thus a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and alcohol could co-exist as a mixture that would not form naturally in OJ.
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Ok, after I got your joke page I checked the link to the article and it was ok so I didn't understand the reason for your joke. Quite a bit later I remembered that I had also posted a background link. I checked and found the CC Times has a weird way of attaching URLs to their articles.
Here is the fixed version:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23138890
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Zachary Adam Chesser sounds American or British but, surprise, he's Muslim -- and a terrorist.
She stole orange juice, let it spoil and then returned it? Right. And maybe the Boston Marathon bombers just misread the instructions for making chicken cacciatore in their pressure cookers, too.
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She didn’t work at the Starbucks. The Contra Costa article said she removed two juice bottles from a Starbucks bag, placed them in the open air cooler, and left the store. The bottles’ safety caps were unsealed. Something doesn’t smell right, and it’s not expired orange juice. And, she was a chemist. Trial run? (Although the quiet suburban middle class area seems like an odd target.)
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