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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Taco Bell employees cleared from customer poisoning case - HRD America

Customer admitted to hospital after eating taco

Taco Bell employees in Colorado had nothing to do with the poisoning of one customer back in January, according to the sheriff’s office that investigated the incident.

The said workers are employed at the Aurora Taco Bell at 16700 E. Smoky Hill Road, and surveillance cameras inside the location helped clear the workers’ names.

A customer visited Taco Bell at around 1 pm on a Sunday in January, according to a report from The Denver Post.

Deputies were called to the restaurant in the suburb of Centennial because of a disturbance. The customer had been arguing with Taco Bell employees after they told him their soda machine was broken. The restaurant workers eventually gave him a free burrito in an attempt to appease him, The Denver Post reported.

Later that evening, the man was admitted to a hospital. He told health care workers that he thought he had been poisoned. He had eaten his Taco Bell takeout at about 7 p.m., the man told deputies, according to the report.

Deputies later found what they described as a greenish substance in the taco, and tests confirmed it was rat poison, according to the report, citing sheriff’s department officials.

“After a thorough investigation, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office has closed the case of the poison in the Taco Bell Food,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement posted on Twitter. “Investigators cleared Taco Bell employees of wrongdoing using surveillance cameras inside the...



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