Lab Worker Poisons Co-worker's Water, Faces Charges

0:00It's April 22nd, from your city to your ears. This is Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Corey with the story. A 41-year-old lab worker at the University of Wisconsin's Influenza Research Institute in Madison faces serious charges after admitting he poisoned a coworker's water bottle. Makoto Karota guy hit with counts of recklessly endangering safety and tampering with the product to cause harm. This all went down earlier this month when chemicals turned up in the bottle. Police got called on April 6th after staff found suspicious stuff in the bottle that had been sitting on a desk for days. The victim noticed a weird smell and taste around April 5th. He took a sip the day before, but spat it out quick. His lab shoes read too, and test showed a massive amount of chloroform, so much the strips couldn't even measure it right. No one got sick though. Turns out Karota and the victim were once Thai friends, but things cooled off lately. After Festa right there in the lab to the guy embosses, blaming it on the victim skipping

1:02lab coat and goggles rules, plus some attitude shift. After a promotion, he said he'd dump hair from out of hide in there too. Cops zeroed in on Karota after a colleague tipped them off about his confession on April 10th. He's locked up in Dane County jail now, with no plea entered yet. Labs got to stay locked down tight after this. Trust breaks fast when chemicals mix with grudges and everyone's watching how the case plays out.