KANSAS CITY — A Shawnee man pleaded guilty in federal court to putting bug poison in an Olathe restaurant’s salsa as part of a revenge plot. Arnoldo Bazan, 31, admitted he conspired with his waitress wife to poison salsa at Mi Ranchito restaurant in Olathe. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Bazan was angry because he believed the owner of the restaurant was responsible for him losing his job and his car being stolen. At least 38 customers became sick after the bug spray was twice put into the restaurant’s salsa.
Sentencing will be in June. His wife, Yini De La Torre, pleaded guilty earlier and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Thursday, March 24, 8 a.m.
