Overview
- Investigators say that on May 28 a 46-year-old employee at a Corral de Bustos butcher shop allegedly put rat poison into a 33-year-old coworker’s thermos after a workplace dispute.
- Security-camera footage published by local authorities shows the woman opening the thermos, introducing a substance and later agitating the container, and those images are a central piece of evidence.
- The male worker drank mates from the thermos, developed nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, was hospitalized and stabilized, and a medical report in the case described poisoning compatible with raticide ingestion.
- Police executed a search of the suspect’s home on calle Ecuador and seized a cellphone and a substance reported as compatible with rodenticide while investigators also seized the thermos and mate for chemical pericia.
- The woman is detained and formally charged with 'lesiones leves calificadas en grado de tentativa' for envenenamiento while the Fiscalía awaits lab results that could change the legal classification; the case remains under secrecy of sumario.