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Posted by: Gil

Two Dunkin' Donuts employees accused of spitting in coffee

February 11, 2006


BARNSTABLE, Mass. --Two employees at a Dunkin' Donuts shop on Cape Cod were arrested after allegedly spitting in customers' coffee.

Rodrigo Rodrigues, 22, and Junior DaSilva, 26, both of Barnstable, each face a felony charge of distributing food intended or expected to cause injury. Both are free on bail after their arraignment this week, the Cape Cod Times reported.

Barnstable police made the arrests Feb. 3 after a six-day investigation prompted by an anonymous tip that employees were spitting and urinating in police officers' coffee, according to a police report filed in court.

One doughnut shop employee told police she heard DaSilva threaten to spit in a customer's coffee and heard Rodrigues, the store manager, encourage him. The woman also heard DaSilva make a spitting sound while some coffees were in front of him, then serve them at a drive-thru. She didn't see DaSilva spit into the drink, the report said.

DaSilva told police he saw Rodrigues spit into a customer's coffee, shake it, then serve it at a drive-thru, according to the report.

Police did not identify anyone who witnessed an employee urinating in coffee. The report also does not mention any police officer who claims to have received contaminated coffee.

Repeated attempts by the Times to contact DaSilva and Rodrigues and their lawyers were unsuccessful. A message for a Dunkin' Donuts spokesperson on Saturday was not immediately returned.

Barnstable police spokesman Sgt. Sean Sweeney said both Rodrigues and DaSilva were no longer working at Dunkin' Donuts.

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Posted by: topcop14

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Originally Posted by Gil Two Dunkin' Donuts employees accused of spitting in coffee February 11, 2006 BARNSTABLE, Mass. --Two employees at a Dunkin' Donuts shop on Cape Cod were arrested after allegedly spitting in customers' coffee. .

Thats why I never use the drive through when I am working.

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Posted by: CBayer222

We always use that dunkin donuts, now I know why they give us free coffee....

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Posted by: GD

That is why unless it is made in front of me, forget it!!!!!

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Posted by: 94c

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Originally Posted by CBayer222 We always use that dunkin donuts, now I know why they give us free coffee....

coffee costs $1.65 at Honey Dew. I give them two bucks and have a nice day. My coffee is clean, yours is free.

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Posted by: Delta784

When I did the FTO gig, I always told my trainees to never get any food/drink where they couldn't personally see it being prepared. When they asked the inevitable questions, I gave them the inevitable answer. Yes, many people hate cops!

The looks on their faces were priceless.

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Posted by: paulathers

Just as long as it was stirred thoroughly!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by: KozmoKramer

Effing anti-social assholes.
There is nothing legitimate to spitting in someone’s food for any cause.
Only a simple-minded ignoramus could do something as vile as that.
Good Lord that is sickening.

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Posted by: HousingCop

What would you expect? Channel 5 says both are illegal immigrants from Brazil. Down in Brazil if they were caught pulling that stunt, swift justice would be swiftly administered. Maybe we should get MarlboroughPD and his dad on the case!

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Posted by: USMCTrooper

Reason # 47 why I do not drink coffee period.

Reason # 5 why I won't set foot in, on or near a Dunkin Donuts.

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Posted by: dcs2244

Check this place out:

www.stainedapron.com

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Posted by: badogg88

I worked for Dunkin Donuts for 2 years when I was in high school. I never gave police officer's free coffee's, because my boss was a Nazi, but I never once thought to urinate in anyone's coffee either. I would have liked to have spit in some people's coffees, but morally would never be able to. People are disgusting.

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Posted by: Killjoy

1. I never use the drivethru while working, I always watch them make anything, and I tip generously.
2. If I ever caught a punk doing that to my coffee he would be spitting his chiclets on the sidewalk outside when I got through with him.

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Posted by: DeputyFife

Not only is this incident truly disgusting...but it brings up another hot-button issue of illegals committing crimes in our country. If both employees are indeed illegal immigrants from Brazil, perhaps we need to look further into their employer and how they are collecting wages, if they are paying taxes, etc. We already know that they do not have driver's licenses.

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Posted by: THE RP

Fife...Take a look at the inevitable majority of DD establishments. Many are owned by Brazilians and they own more than one. They get cheap labor from the immigrant population and these employees bring their friends who are also illegals. It's rampant around here and people wonder why they can't get their coffee right. It has become the illegal Brazilian immigrant profession of choice..Just like the other immigrants before them they found a niche.. How it works is pretty simple license or not. The illegals are either fraudulently using stolen SS numbers or actually getting SS numbers even though they are illegal. By the time someone figures it out the mopes have moved on to another DD with a different number or they are painting houses or landscaping under the table. It's how they survive. And yes even in today's world the Federal government gives a rats ass about illegals getting SS numbers because they are never going to claim their withholdings and who gets to keep it? You guessed it. Uncle Sam. The employers have plausible deniability most of the time if anyone asks because they simply take the number and file the withholdings under the numbers. They don't have the means to check and if they do they don't care because they need bodies behind the counter. Then of course there's the less scrupulous employers who hire them anyways with or without and pay them slave wages to sling coffee...If ICE came around here there would be civil unrest due to the closed DD's when the general public tries to get their morning fix because all the shops would be closed after ICE took all the illegals Brazilians away.....It's swimming against the tide dude...People don't give a rats ass as long as they get their large regular....

Lessons to be learned here. Go where you have friends and never use the drive thru.

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Posted by: DeputyFife

RP,


Point well-taken. It's worth the extra $ to either go to a reputable coffee shop, or serve your own coffee at the convenience store. The illegal issue probably isn't worth touching for a while...

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