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Posted: Saturday, January 3, 2009 12:00 am
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) - A woman arrested for mixing pepper into a glass of water may also lose her job at a private home for the developmentally disabled in Beatrice.
Linda Timmons, CEO of Mosaic, said Friday the Omaha-based company's still finishing up its investigation. But Timmons says if the allegation's true, the suspended employee will be fired.
Beatrice police arrested the woman Tuesday on suspicion of felony abuse of a vulnerable adult after Mosaic reported the incident.
Police say the employee mixed pepper into a water glass a resident of the home later drank. The 52-year-old woman who drank the pepper water had been known to drink from other people's glasses.
Timmons says the water laced with pepper didn't cause any lasting injury.