Caregiver accused of trying to kill elderly couple with rat poison-laced cigarettes

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Caregiver accused of trying to kill elderly couple in Pennsylvania by lacing their cigarettes with rat poison.

A 73-year-old woman in Northumberland County told authorities last Friday that she found an unknown green substance in cigarettes that were rolled for her by Tina Young, who takes care of her 80-year-old husband.

When confronted by investigators, Young admitted to putting ground-up pieces of rodent poison with the loose tobacco in the cigarettes she rolled for the couple in an attempt to kill them for having her fired from her job, according to the incident report from the Pennsylvania State Police.Young, 37, was arrested for attempted murder, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment.

Arraigned before a district judge on Monday, she's being held at the Northumberland County Jail on $250,000 bail.

 

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Omg 😶

LuvUGeorgeM We had one here working in nursing homes injecting people who weren't diabetic with insulin and euthenizing them. Serial killers!

Mercy

If she had more patience, she could have just let them keep smoking REGULAR cigs.

Cigarettes are bad enough 😷

Urm... there is already Arsenic and Fire Extinguisher Fluid. Note: FSC is Fire Safe Cigarette. Goes out if you aren't hitting it. Stick one under a Black Light and chem colors show up.

BREAKING: Another caregiver accused of trying to kill elderly couple in Pennsylvania by lacing their rat poison with cigarettes.

I thought that shit was already in cigarettes.

Might wanna rethink calling her a caregiver

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