DoorDash driver caught spraying substance on food bizarrely claims she was aiming at spider
Kourtney Stevenson was recorded on a doorbell camera on December 7 while making a delivery of Arby’s to a house in Indiana. She showed up, snapped a confirmation photo of the bag, and then calmly sprayed an aerosol into it.
In the footage, the blue‑haired Kentucky native appears calm as she applies the spray, but when police traced her, she insisted she was simply trying to scare off a spider.
Residents Mandy and Mark Cardin reported that after eating the food, they both vomited and felt a burning sensation in their throats and mouths, prompting the local sheriff’s office to investigate. The pair said their wife began choking and gasping after a few bites, and that she eventually threw up.
Stevenson explained to detectives that she was visiting her father in Indiana and had taken a temporary DoorDash gig. She said, “I noticed my wife had started eating, and she started choking and gasping,” Mark Cardin told WFIE Media.
He added that the couple had reached out through the DoorDash app but found her had blocked them. After reviewing the doorbell footage, Cardin posted the images on Facebook to alert the public.
Following a review of the evidence, Indiana authorities charged Stevenson with two counts of battery resulting in moderate injury and two counts of consumer package tampering.
She was arrested in Kentucky and is scheduled to be extradited to Indiana. Meanwhile, the Cardins are left wondering whether they’ll ever use a food delivery service again.
“The couple is concerned about what was in the spray,” Cardin told WFIE. “We assume it’s pepper spray. That’s more than likely what it is, but now, in this day and age, it could’ve been anything. It could’ve been rat poison. It could’ve been fentanyl. I mean, my wife could’ve been dead.”
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