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.
© Japan Today
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snowymountainhell
Anyone else seem to recall another ‘recent’ story of someone in Japan drugging a number of coworkers? Or was THIS it ?
snowymountainhell
Well anyway, Midori Shibasaki here’s not the first of Japan’s nurses to try doing this to coworkers:
englisc aspyrgend
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?
snowymountainhell
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
purple_depressed_bacon
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.....
Johansawada
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...
kaimycahl
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.
ushosh123
I'm surprised at the amount of detail with names released based on just suspicion.
ReynardFox
Uh, if the plan was to hide “their own dilatory behaviour”, wouldn’t reporting it to their superiors be kinda counterproductive?
englisc aspyrgend
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!
SDCA
I remember the guy who urinated in his co-worker's drink because he liked her.
snowymountainhell
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:
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.