A woman employee in the United States has been arrested on charges of felony assault for allegedly poisoning her colleagues by pouring window cleaner into the office coffee maker.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said that, 32 year old Mayda Rivera-Juarez who worked as a cleaner at a freight company, was arrested in Sterling, Virginia, as several of her co-workers fell ill after drinking the toxic coffee. She poured a window cleaning agent into the coffee-maker at her job over several weeks.

Colleagues at JAS Forwarding Worldwide, a freight company, claim they suffered severe digestive problems and diarrhoea.

The WJLA-TV reported, Loudoun County Sheriff Mike Chapman said that, “The employees at this place had been getting sick, didn’t quite know what was going on.” “When she was coming in to get terminated, some of this came to light,” he said.

Rivera-Juarez was a disgruntled employee and that is why she put cleaning products in a Keurig coffeemaker used by her co-workers, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said.

She lost her job at the company following the allegation and is now being held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center without bond.

Some employees were getting sick and did know why until the allegation against Rivera-Juarez came to light, Mr. Chapman said.

Nandini