infoOregon Thriftway deli worker arrested after feeding colleagues meth-laced bean dip

Oregon Thriftway deli worker arrested after feeding colleagues meth-laced bean dip

Cassandra Medina-Hernandez, 38, let her colleagues eat the dip after removing something from her bra and going behind a microwave inside the deli section of the supermarket. She also consumed some of the dip herself.

The co-worker began feeling ill, went to the hospital, and was told the dip might have been contaminated with meth, deputies said.

A least one other employee might have eaten some of the dip, deputies said, but they don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t think any customers did.

The manager said she was told by another employee that Medina-Hernandez and the third worker who ate the dip intentionally put meth in her daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0099s food.

The daughter told the deputy that she went to the deli to get something for lunch, saw Medina-Hernandez making bean dip and asked to try some, the affidavit said. She took some of the dip home with her about a half-hour later, \u00e2\u0080\u009cthought one of the bites she ate tasted odd, but she did not think anything of it,\u00e2\u0080\u009d the affidavit said.

The third employee who ate the bean dip told the deputy that Medina-Hernandez texted her explaining the meth in the sick worker\u00e2\u0080\u0099s food was an accident, the affidavit said. The employee said she didn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t want to get Medina-Hernandez in trouble and said she was told the meth-laced dip was meant for Medina-Hernandez and another employee.

Medina-Hernandez, who has been charged with suspicion of delivery of methamphetamine and causing another person to ingest a controlled substance, remained held on $50,000 bail Friday, jail records show