A couple from California experienced their worst fear when surveillance footage revealed their roommate tampering with their food using a suspected poison.
Authorities confirmed that 42-year-old Timothy Bradbury was taken into custody by the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station on Tuesday, February 24, following accusations of food poisoning, as reported by Fox News Digital.
Billy Sonhopper and her husband, David, shared with ABC7 that their security cameras caught Bradbury in the act, spraying substances onto their food and kitchen items.
“He was spraying something all over our groceries—our fruits, vegetables, the coffee pot we use every morning, even our entire pantry filled with chips, cereal, canned goods, and spices. He contaminated everything,” Billy Sonhopper recounted to the local news outlet.
The surveillance footage reportedly shows Bradbury, clad in a blue hoodie and gas mask, dispersing an unknown substance from a blue bottle throughout the kitchen.
The video shows the suspect in a blue hoodie and gas mask spraying the kitchen with a blue bottle.
David Sonhopper said the couple’s suspicions were raised during a recent ER visit, when doctors told them blood work suggested possible poisoning.
That’s what led the couple to check the cameras the landlord had installed in the home.
“On the video we found that, besides all the other things that he’s done in the year that we’ve lived here, that he was spraying something. We weren’t sure if it was rat poison, wasp spray,” David Sonhopper said.
Timothy Bradbury allegedly sprayed some kind of poison on his roommates’ food, and the whole thing was caught on camera. (KNN.NEWS)
The couple said they have long struggled with their roommate, sharing that, in the past, he allegedly tried to set the house on fire and cut up the couple’s clothing.
The Sonhoppers shared that they had turned to police before but didn’t have evidence until the surveillance video.
“It’s been hell living with him the past year. It’s been horrible,” David Sonhopper said after Bradbury’s arrest. “With her health issues, we were extremely concerned. And we’re just tired. We’ve been living with so much stress.”
“We don’t want to be in fear anymore. We’re tired of it. We just want to be safe,” Billy Sonhopper said.
The suspect wore a gas mask and blue hoodie in the video. (KNN.NEWS)
On Feb. 24, police officers arrived at the home, but the suspect refused to exit. After deputies were informed by family members that Bradbury “suffers from a mental health disability,” they recruited the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Evaluation Team to help detain the suspect, the sheriff’s department explained.
After two hours, Bradbury voluntarily left the house.
Investigators then executed a search warrant and recovered physical evidence, police said.
Bradbury was arrested on charges of willful poisoning of food, drink, medicine or water with the intent to cause injury.
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