I could swear that I’ve seen this exact plot in an episode of Law & Order.
NBC News reports:
University of Wisconsin scientist accused of trying to poison lab colleague who got promotionA University of Wisconsin lab worker upset about his colleague’s behavior and promotion allegedly confessed to poisoning the co-worker’s water bottle.Makoto Kuroda, 41, was charged with recklessly endangering safety and tampering with a household product “with the intent to kill, injure or otherwise endanger the health” of another person, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County last week.Kuroda allegedly admitted to a professor at the lab that he was upset at the colleague who Kuroda said failed to follow rules in addition to a number of small things “that all added up.”The colleague was identified only by the initials TM in the criminal complaint. According to the complaint, TM and Kuroda met in 2017 and have worked together at the university’s Influenza Research Institute in Madison for five years.The University of Wisconsin said in a statement that it became aware of the issue between two employees in the School of Veterinary Medicine and that Kuroda is on administrative leave as the university conducts a workplace investigation.”His access to physical and digital university assets, and his research privileges, have been revoked,” the statement said. “Due to employee privacy laws and ongoing criminal proceedings, the university does not have additional information to share at this time.”University police officers were called to the lab April 6 after a report that chemicals were discovered in an employee’s drink. TM told the officers he had opened a Trader Joe’s water bottle that had been on his desk for about two days and noticed a strange odor when he went to drink from it again on April 4, the complaint said.”TM took a drink from the water bottle, noticed a strange taste, and spat it out,” the complaint said. “TM then observed this strange odor from his shoes on Monday, April 6, 2026, and believed it to be Chloroform.”
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