An employee at a Fayetteville pizzeria was expected to make a first appearance in court Thursday after being arrested on charges that he attempted to poison customers by tampering with food at the eatery.
Police said a manager at Primo Pizza and Italian Eatery at 2810 Raeford Road was preparing a pizza when he noticed an unknown substance mixed with the shredded cheese.
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Authorities said surveillance video showed Ricky Lee Adami, 59, of the 3100 block of Imperial Drive, putting rat poison into the cheese shredder machine.
The manager contacted police and all contaminated cheese was collected before being served to customers.
Adami was charged with distributing food containing noxious or deleterious material and was being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center under $100,000 bond.