A Tucson woman convicted of poisoning her husbandβs coffee over a period of months has been sentenced to probation.
Melody Feliciano Johnson pleaded guilty to two counts of adding poison or a harmful substance to food or drink, which carries a much lesser penalty than her initial charge of attempted murder, county prosecutors said.
These lesser charges carried up to a two-year sentence. Judge Javier Chon-Lopez sentenced Johnson to three years of probation and ordered her to undergo mental health evaluation and abstain contact from her estranged husband. She was set to be released because she has already spent a year in jail.
The case began in 2023 when Johnsonβs husband began to notice his coffee tasting odd. After this happened on several occasions, he used a pool testing strip and determined that the pot did, indeed, obtain high levels of chlorine, Tucson police said last year.
Johnsonβs husband then secretly recorded his wife making his coffee. Video showed Johnson pouring something into the pot while her husband was out of the room.
As part of her plea agreement, Johnson admitted that she put trace amounts of bleach in her husbandβs coffee pot on two separate instances in July 2023.
