{"id":103297,"date":"2025-12-14T08:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/doordash-driver-faces-felony-charges-after-allegedly-spraying-customers-food\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:44:54","slug":"doordash-driver-faces-felony-charges-after-allegedly-spraying-customers-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/doordash-driver-faces-felony-charges-after-allegedly-spraying-customers-food\/","title":{"rendered":"DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying customers\u2019 food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/vanderburghsheriff.org\/kentucky-woman-arrested-on-felony-charges-for-allegedly-spraying-substance-on-doordash-food\/\">a press release<\/a>, the Vanderburgh County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that it was contacted on December 7 by a man who said that he and his wife vomited and experienced a burning sensation in their mouth, nose, throat, and stomachs after eating fast food ordered through DoorDash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/indiana-doordash-driver-seen-video-appearing-spray-delivery-irritant-s-rcna248525\">The man told NBC News<\/a> that he noticed something red had been sprayed on the delivery bag, so he checked footage from their doorbell camera. According to the sheriff\u2019s department, the footage shows that after dropping off the food and taking a photo, the woman appeared to spray a substance towards the food from a small aerosol can attached to her keychain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheriff\u2019s department said that using DoorDash records, detectives identified the woman as Kourtney Stevenson of Kentucky, who told local police in a phone call that she had been working for DoorDash while visiting her father, and that she\u2019d used pepper spray to spray a spider. But the department also said that with an overnight low of 35 degrees Fahrenheit, \u201coutdoor spiders in Indiana are not active and would not be capable of crawling on exposed surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Stevenson allegedly declined to come in for an interview, detectives obtained a warrant to arrest her for battery resulting in a moderate injury and consumer product tampering. She is now awaiting extradition to Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A DoorDash spokesperson said in a statement that Stevenson has been banned from the platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have absolutely zero tolerance for this type of appalling behavior,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cThe Dasher\u2019s access to the platform has been permanently removed, and our team is supporting law enforcement with their investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-techcrunch-inline-cta\">\n<div class=\"inline-cta__wrapper\">\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-cta__content\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__location\">San Francisco<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__separator\">|<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"inline-cta__date\">October 13-15, 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/13\/us\/kentucky-delivery-driver-pepper-spray-food.html\">The New York Times<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/doordash-driver-told-authorities-was-trying-spray-spider-rcna248953\">NBC News<\/a> both report that it\u2019s not clear if Stevenson has a lawyer who can comment on her behalf.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/13\/doordash-driver-faces-felony-charges-after-allegedly-spraying-customers-food\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}