Missing News – Florida Woman’s Poisoning Charges Dropped After Boyfriend Accuser Vanishes

Florida prosecutors have decided not to file formal charges against a lady who is alleged to have tainted her live-in boyfriend’s tea with a bleach tablet from “under the kitchen sink.” Her accuser has since disappeared.

The Miami-Dade Police Department said that Ivette Diaz “thought it,” meaning the bleach, “was sugar.” This claim certainly contributed to the initial attention drawn to the now-dropped case against her.

However, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office prosecutors said on Thursday that there were significant problems with the case, including the disappearance of Diaz’s accuser, Lee Bonner.

“The victim asked for a ride to the bus station and an early termination of his lease, the neighbors informed the lead Detective the day after the incident.” The victim was dropped off at the bus station by him, as the neighbor attested. The memo clarified that “he did not know where the victim went.”

“The State made several phone calls, left messages, ran an Accurint, and tried calling every number that was generated in an attempt to get in touch with the victim.”

According to the prosecution, when police inquired as to whether Bonner was lodging at a “homeless shelter” in Broward County, they discovered that it “no longer existed.”

In the absence of Bonner’s testimony, the state came to the conclusion that the case could not be proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt because “no forensic evidence that corroborated the victim’s story that bleach was put in his drink.”

The letter stated, “Any evidence of its contents were lost as a result of the victim pouring the drink down the sink.” “Contrary to what the victim told the police, CCTV from the incident also showed both the victim and the Defendant coming in and out of the trailer multiple times.”

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The 49-year-old Diaz was charged with ruining Bonner’s tea on the evening of February 20. The three-year live-in boyfriend reported to police that after leaving their trailer to speak with his employer on the phone, he went back inside and “immediately” felt a burning feeling in his throat after taking “a large gulp” of tea.

According to the account, Bonner offered Diaz some tea while he was eating a “spicy” tortilla, but Diaz “adamantly” refused to drink it.

The victim suddenly became aware that his cup was leaking a strong bleach odor. The victim saw fragments of a concentrated bleach tablet in his cup, which he uses to dissolve into five liters of water, as soon as he put the drink into the sink, according to the police report. “There’s bleach in this drink!” the victim exclaimed as she turned to face the defendant. Has bleach been added to my drink?

Prosecutors did the same after police stressed that bleach could not have been mistaken for sugar because it was stored under the kitchen sink.

Again believing she had put sugar in the tea, Diaz and her lawyer argued during a hearing where the judge determined probable cause that there was no intent to kill or hurt.

According to local NBC station WTVJ, the attorney stated, “Our probable cause argument is that there was no intent, and that is one of the elements — intent to kill or injure.” “Ms. Diaz said—it says in the arrest affidavit—that she was not aware that she was inserting what turned out to be the tablet.”

The prosecution now admits that Bonner’s decision to pour the disputed tea down the sink constituted a significant loss of evidence.

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The no-action development is a major victory for Diaz since it eliminates the possibility of a lengthy jail sentence for the felony first-degree domestic abuse case that involved contaminating food or water.

A nolle prosequi is a prosecutorial dismissal made after official charges are issued, whereas a no-action decision takes place prior to formal charges being filed.