A Lebanon, Missouri woman accused of poisoning her husband’s Mountain Dew bottles with insecticide told police she did it because she was mad at him, according to court documents. Michelle Y. Peters, 47, was arrested June 24, according to court documents. Authorities say she admitted the same day to spiking bottles of Mountain Dew in the garage fridge her husband often drank from. Peters said she was mad at her husband because he was “not appreciative” when she threw him a 50th birthday party, according to court documents. Peters said she meant to put Roundup in the Mountain Dew in order to “be mean.” Peters has been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action, both felonies, according to court records. She pleaded not guilty to both on Tuesday. Peters’ husband told detectives that he first noticed a weird taste to his Diet Mountain Dew on May 1, and got sick shortly thereafter, according to court documents. The victim told detectives he continued to drink the Mountain Dew stored at his home, even after the weird taste persisted, according to court documents. Within a couple of weeks, he started experiencing diarrhea, nausea and a sore throat. He also began vomiting and coughing up brown and yellow mucus. Peters’ husband sent surveillance video to the Laclede County Sheriff’s Office showing his wife tampering with Mountain Dew stored in their garage refrigerator, according to the sheriff’s office. In the footage, Peters can be seen taking the soda out of the fridge, handling Roundup weed killer, and then putting the soda back in the fridge. Roundup is a herbicide that contains glyphosate, a chemical known to cause cancer.
