Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Florida middle school student arrested for poisoning music teacher

TAMPA, Fla. A 14-year-old Florida girl has been arrested for allegedly poisoning her music teacher with lemonade spiked with marker board cleaner.

Tampa police say the teacher became sick and was treated at a hospital, but suffered no other ill effects.

The middle school student's being held in a juvenile assessment center on a felony poisoning charge.

The girl allegedly told police she put the cleaner into the teacher's drink because she was angry because the teacher wouldn't let her leave class to go to the restroom.