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Ex-nurse arrested for mixing psychoactive drugs in colleague’s water

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Police in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, have arrested a 53-year-old former nurse on suspicion of mixing psychoactive drugs in her former colleague’s water bottle.

According to police, Midori Shibasaki, who is currently unemployed, allegedly mixed the drugs in her 54-year-old colleague’s water bottle on Oct 9 last year, Sankei Shimbun reported. The victim became drowsy after drinking the tainted water and suffered impaired consciousness.

Prior to the incident, the nurse consulted with her superiors and police about experiencing extreme drowsiness during working hours that had plagued her for about a month.

Police suspect that Shibasaki, who has denied the charge, may have tainted her colleague's water on more than one occasion. They are looking into how she might have acquired the drugs and whether there was any trouble between the two women in their work or personal lives.

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Anyone else seem to recall another ‘recent’ story of someone in Japan drugging a number of coworkers? Or was THIS it ?

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Well anyway, Midori Shibasaki here’s not the first of Japan’s nurses to try doing this to coworkers:

Aug 2, 2017 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170802/p2a/00m/0na/009000c - “Chiba assistant nurse slapped with fresh charges over murder of co-worker”

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As yet only suspicion, no actual proof, the more interesting and relevant question is what motive?

She may be guilty or it could be on the evidence in the article that her co-worker is trying to mask their own dilatory behaviour?

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Never really know who your caregivers ‘really’ are. - Found it from Nov 9, 2021: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/ex-nurse-gets-life-in-prison-for-killing-3-elderly-patients-at-yokohama-hospital

“*Beginning about half a year before the death of Nishikawa, a series of suspicious incidents occurred at the [formerly-named Oguchi} hospital in Yokohama's Kanagawa Ward. In Apr, shredded nurses' aprons were found; in Jun, part of a patient's medical records was lost; and in Aug, a nurse tasted what she believes was bleach in a bottled drink.” *

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Soooo instead of just talking with her colleague about what issue(s) she had with her, she decided to drug her drink instead. Not passive aggressive at all.....

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Police suspect that Shibasaki, who has denied the charge, may have tainted her colleague's water on more than one occasion. They are looking into how she might have acquired the drugs and whether there was any trouble between the two women in their work or personal lives.

so what made the Police suspect that Shibasaki might have done it if they are still looking into her motives and how she acquired the drugs? shouldn't they have done some sort of investigation on this first before arresting her? confusing...

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Two women nurses working in the same hospital perhaps it is jealousy. Some women boast about things others don't it could be jealousy of lifestyle etc. My guess would be jealousy pure envy. If they quarreled perhaps it would have been reported but the nurse who made the report just complained of drowsiness no other motives.

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I'm surprised at the amount of detail with names released based on just suspicion.

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her co-worker is trying to mask their own dilatory behaviour?

Uh, if the plan was to hide “their own dilatory behaviour”, wouldn’t reporting it to their superiors be kinda counterproductive?

the nurse consulted with her superiors and police about experiencing extreme drowsiness during working hours that had plagued her for about a month.

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Uh, if the plan was to hide “their own dilatory behaviour”, wouldn’t reporting it to their superiors be kinda counterproductive?

by reporting to employerd and police, diverts attention to another and precludes the claim that they were dozing on the job. Almost impossible for the employers to make that accusation now!

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Anyone else seem to recall another ‘recent’ story of someone in Japan drugging a number of coworkersOr was THIS it ?

I remember the guy who urinated in his co-worker's drink because he liked her.

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Good example of another ‘coworker-on-coworker’ crime, ‘possibly’ on the increase in Japan @SDCA 10:58am.- That’s a SoraNews ‘classic’ from last Aug 30, 2021:

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-after-urinating-in-drink-bottle-of-woman-coworker

Not to do a ‘piss-take’ on any of these alleged poisoning stories, but yes, possibly some Japanese do seem to have a propensity to use bodily fluids as well a controlled substances in attacks on their coworkers and/or random persons encountered in their easily commute. Stay vigilante.

*- @SDCA 10:58am:[Anyone else seem to recall another ‘recent’ story of someone in Japan drugging a number of coworkersOr was THIS it ?]*

“I remember the guy who urinated in his co-worker's drink because he liked her.” -

Canbridge/Oxford/Collins: *‘piss-Take’: noun [ C ] UK. Brit. Informal: *an act of making someone or something look silly.

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