Texas teenager has been charged with trying to serve a poisoned drink to a fellow student so she herself would be able to perform in the school play.
Katherine Smith, 18, had told her family that she was the star of the school play when in reality she was an understudy, according to an arrest warrant published on www.thesmokinggun.com.
A number of family members said they would come from out of town to see the performance and Smith decided to poison the lead actress on opening night "so she could not perform in the play," the arrest warrant said.
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Smith brought a small bottle of bleach to her Hurst, Texas school and poured some into a bottle of Mountain Dew, which she then presented to the lead actress as a gift.
But the bottle smelled strongly of bleach and the girl brought it to a teacher to complain. The teacher smelled the bottle and called police.
Smith initially denied that she had done anything to the bottle, but a day later confessed to her teacher and wrote a statement describing how she had hidden the bottle that held the bleach and then thrown it down a storm drain.
Police took the bottle of Mountain Dew to a laboratory for testing and issued an arrest warrant.
Smith turned herself in and was released after she posted bail, a spokesman for the Tarrant County Sheriff Department said.
The district attorney's office is waiting for further forensic results before determining whether to proceed with the case. Smith has been charged with tampering with a consumer product, and could serve up to 20 years in prison. (AFP)
德州一名青少女為了能在學校戲劇中演出，企圖拿毒飲料給同學喝而遭到起訴。
根據網站 www.thesmokinggun.com 刊登的逮捕令，今年十八歲的凱薩琳*史密斯告訴家人她在校內戲劇中擔任主角，但實際上她只是一名替角。
部分家族成員表示會從外地來觀賞表演，史密斯於是決定在開幕夜對女主角下毒，「好讓她無法在戲劇中演出」逮捕令上寫道。
史密斯帶了一小罐漂白劑到位於德州赫斯特的學校，倒了一些進瓶裝飲料山露﹙Mountain Dew﹚後，再送給女主角當禮物。
不過這瓶飲料有濃烈的漂白劑味道，這名女孩拿去向一名教師抱怨，教師聞了一下瓶口便報警處理。
史密斯起初否認對瓶子動過任何手腳，但翌日便向老師坦承，並寫了封聲明描述她如何藏匿裝有漂白劑的罐子，並將之棄置於排水溝。
警方把這罐山露拿到實驗室檢測後便發出逮捕令。
塔蘭郡警局發言人表示，史密斯向警局自首，在提出保釋後獲得交保。
地檢署將等候法院進一步裁決再決定是否繼續偵辦此案。史密斯因損壞消費性產品的罪名被起訴，最高可處二十年有期徒刑。 （法新社╱翻譯︰鄭湘儀）
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