Food at Raley’s near Stateline contaminated
South Lake Tahoe police officers are looking for a man accused of contaminating the food court inside Raley’s near Stateline.
Police are looking for this man.
A man walked into the grocery store Nov. 15, approached the self-serve food display in the Hot Wok food court, and dispensed an unknown substance on top of the food, according to officers. He then walked out of the store and left the area on foot.
According to officers reviewing surveillance tape, this person did the same thing at least three times this month.
The contaminated food has been sent out for analysis.
The suspect is described as a white male adult, approximately 5-feet-7-inches tall, with a thin build. He was last seen wearing a black hat, dark sunglasses, a black long-sleeve shirt, black backpack, and blue jeans.
Anyone with information is asked to call 530.542.6100 or Secret Witness at 530.541.6800.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
This is interesting because my husband had a bad experience with the salad bar at Goodfellas pizza a couple weeks ago. Said the lettuce looked wet and smelled like bleach. He brought it to the workers attention, who tried a small piece that was not wet and said it tasted fine. My husband then tried a few pieces of lettuce and immediately his mouth felt like it was on fire. He spit it out, ran to the restroom and spent 10 minutes rinsing out his mouth. Luckily he was fine, but what if he hadn’t noticed the strange smell, made his salad and tried to eat it, or swallowed it because the salad dressing might have masked the smell. Wondering if this man went to Goodfellas and contaminated the salad bar. The horrible thing is that the person working didn’t seem that concerned. He just brought a new bowl of lettuce out to the salad bar, didn’t check any of the other items. Didn’t offer an apology to my husband or anything. I would have closed down that salad bar immediately!