A Utah woman was arrested earlier this week after she allegedly gave her sleepy boyfriend a spoonful of drain cleaner instead of medicine in an attempt to kill him.
South Salt Lake police learned of the alleged poisoning when they were called to a Salt Lake City urgent care center around 8:40 p.m. Monday. Medics told officers they were treating a 50-year-old man who’d swallowed drain cleaner, according to a probable cause statement.
The man’s girlfriend, 43-year-old Elle Weissman, told police she’d given the man drain cleaner while he was partially asleep because she wanted him to “go into eternal sleep.