DoorDash driver arrested after being caught on camera allegedly pepper-spraying delivery order
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE/Gray News) - A food delivery driver in Indiana accused of dropping off an Arby’s bag and spraying pepper spray has been arrested.
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office identified the DoorDash driver involved as Kourtney Stevenson.
She was booked Friday into the McCracken County Jail and faces charges that include consumer product tampering and battery resulting in moderate bodily injury.
DoorDash customer Mark Cardin said the ordeal began last weekend when he and his wife decided to order food just after midnight on Sunday.
But it didn’t take them long to realize something was wrong with their food.
“I noticed my wife had started eating and she started choking and gasping, and after she had a couple of bites of her food, she actually threw up,” he said.
Cardin said he started to check the food a little closer.
“I had a look at the bag and saw that there was some kind of spray or something,” he said. “The bag had been tampered with. So I pulled up my doorbell camera and saw that the lady who dropped the food off had actually tampered with it on purpose for some reason.”
Cardin shared his doorbell video showing the delivery driver dropping off the food and appearing to show Stevenson spraying the bag afterward.
“It’s horrific,” he said. “We assume it’s pepper spray, that’s more than likely what it is, but now in this day and age, it could’ve been anything.”
Authorities said the doorbell video helped identify the DoorDash driver as Stevenson, leading to her arrest.
“This instance was rather disturbing. Obviously, it’s not something you see every day, a DoorDash driver or a food delivery driver deliberately tampering with somebody’s food,” Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson said. “It gained a lot of attention even regionally and nationally.”
Deputies said Stevenson told them that she was in Evansville visiting her father and was working for DoorDash during her stay.
She said she was spraying a spider at the time she dropped off the food and that she is terrified of them.
However, Vanderburgh County authorities say they aren’t buying that explanation.
“I am not an arachnid expert, but I do know, having been a southern Indiana resident for my entire life, that spiders don’t crawl around in the wintertime, and the low that night was about 35 degrees,” Robinson said. “Any spider would be warm inside its shelter and would not be crawling around somebody’s doorstep.”
DoorDash said Stevenson’s access to the platform has been revoked, saying the company has “zero tolerance” for such behavior.
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