A man has been charged with plotting to strike it rich by planting a dead mouse in a burrito at a Taco Bell restaurant.
Ryan Daniel Goff, 20, was arraigned Thursday on an attempted extortion count. He laughed and smiled as District Judge Thomas Phillips read the charge.
"I don't recall seeing anything like this before," Grand Traverse County prosecutor Alan Schneider told the Traverse City Record-Eagle. "It was pretty ill-conceived from the beginning."
The sheriff's department said that while eating at the restaurant Jan. 24, Goff complained to an employee that his burrito tasted "funny."
Goff declined a replacement burrito and insisted on keeping his when he left, investigators said.
He later called Taco Bell and allegedly told a regional manager "It won't be a good day if the media finds out about this," according to court records.
"There was an implied threat there to the regional manager, and that is why we charged this as an attempt," Schneider said.
He said Goff's girlfriend told an investigator that she was with Goff when he bought frozen mice at a pet store and saw him place one in the burrito.
Goff already was in jail on unrelated charges Thursday, but Phillips boosted his bond to $100,000 (euro83,900) after his arraignment on the felony charge, punishable by up to five years in prison.
It was in January that Anna Ayala, 40, was sentenced to nine years in prison for extortion after planting a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in California, claiming it had been served to her. Her husband, Jaime Plascencia, 44, who obtained the finger from someone who lost it in an accident, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
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Posted by: Cinderella
ewww what is it with people who want to put body parts and animals in their food!
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