Doordash Driver Faces Felony Charges After Allegedly Spraying Customers’ Food

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1:06 PM PST · December 13, 2025

A female is facing felony charges successful Evansville, Indiana complete a DoorDash transportation successful which she allegedly sprayed nan nutrient pinch a constituent that made nan customers vomit.

In a property release, nan Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office said that it was contacted connected December 7 by a man who said that he and his woman vomited and knowledgeable a burning sensation successful their mouth, nose, throat, and stomachs aft eating accelerated nutrient ordered done DoorDash.

The man told NBC News that he noticed thing reddish had been sprayed connected nan transportation bag, truthful he checked footage from their doorbell camera. According to nan sheriff’s department, nan footage shows that aft dropping disconnected nan nutrient and taking a photo, nan female appeared to spray a constituent towards nan nutrient from a mini aerosol tin attached to her keychain.

The sheriff’s section said that utilizing DoorDash records, detectives identified nan female arsenic Kourtney Stevenson of Kentucky, who told section constabulary successful a telephone telephone that she had been moving for DoorDash while visiting her father, and that she’d utilized capsicum spray to spray a spider. But nan section besides said that pinch an overnight debased of 35 degrees Fahrenheit, “outdoor spiders successful Indiana are not progressive and would not beryllium tin of crawling connected exposed surfaces.”

When Stevenson allegedly declined to travel successful for an interview, detectives obtained a warrant to apprehension her for artillery resulting successful a mean wounded and user merchandise tampering. She is now awaiting extradition to Indiana.

A DoorDash spokesperson said successful a connection that Stevenson has been banned from nan platform.

“We person perfectly zero tolerance for this type of appalling behavior,” nan spokesperson said. “The Dasher’s entree to nan level has been permanently removed, and our squad is supporting rule enforcement pinch their investigation.”

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The New York Times and NBC News some study that it’s not clear if Stevenson has a lawyer who tin remark connected her behalf.

Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s play editor. Previously, he worked arsenic a tech newsman astatine Adweek, a elder editor astatine VentureBeat, a section authorities newsman astatine nan Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of contented astatine a VC firm. He lives successful New York City.

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