Oklahoma Arby's manager charged with felony poisoning after spitting

A former manager of an Arby's restaurant in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, has been charged with felony poisoning after police say surveillance video captured her spitting into a customer's food. The customer, Jennica Church, has filed a lawsuit alleging the act transmitted a herpes infection to her.

Amanda Hendricks, 38, was charged with felony poisoning with intent to injure following an incident on March 28. According to a police affidavit, Church visited the drive-through late that night after finishing a bartending shift. She ordered a meal and noticed the preparation was taking longer than usual. Church ate one sandwich in the parking lot and took the remaining food home to share with her husband and a relative receiving hospice care.

The investigation began on April 1 after another Arby's employee reported a co-worker had spit in a customer's order. Police obtained a search warrant for surveillance footage from the restaurant on April 16. The affidavit states the video from the night of March 28 shows Hendricks removing meat from a slicer, lifting it, leaning her head down, and allowing saliva to fall onto the sandwich before completing the order. The document further notes that...