A day after an Irvine woman was arrested on suspicion of poisoning her husband, he filed for divorce and requested custody of their two children, records show. The man’s attorney also filed court documents claiming video evidence shows she used Drano in multiple alleged poisoning attempts.
Dr. Yue “Emily” Yu, 45, a dermatologist in Mission Viejo, was arrested by the Irvine Police Department on Aug. 4 after her husband contacted police saying he believed his wife was poisoning him and provided detectives with “video evidence supporting his suspicion,” police said in a Tuesday statement.
Yu’s husband was granted a temporary restraining order Aug. 5. It states Yu cannot contact her husband or their two children, must stay 100 yards away from them, and must move out of their home until the restraining order hearing set for Aug. 18, according to court documents.
In Yu’s husband’s petition for the temporary restraining order, he claimed he had recorded three separate instances on video where Yu took Drano from under their kitchen sink and poured it in his lemonade, which he said he drinks hot, and tea. The first video is allegedly from July 11, 2022.
He claims he first began noticing a chemical taste in his drinks beginning in March 2022 and developed symptoms that eventually led to his doctor diagnosing him with “two stomach ulcers, gastritis, and esophagitis,” the petition said.
Yu’s husband then put cameras in the kitchen that he claims shows the poisoning.
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