ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990                   TAG: 9005220546
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

2 INDICTED ON CHARGES OF TAMPERING WITH SOUP

A Chesterfield County grand jury indicted a man and a woman on three felony food tampering counts for allegedly dropping cocaine-tainted syringes into three supermarket soup kettles.

If convicted on all counts, Bonnie Grissom Bayliss and Joseph E. Scearce Jr. could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison.

Scearce and Bayliss told police after their arrests that they had been stealing food from the grocery stores for several months, then returning it for money to buy cocaine.

After the supermarket managers stopped giving them refunds, Bayliss dropped the used syringes into the store soup kettles in an act of revenge, according to testimony. - Associated Press 


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