Teen wanted for plot to kill infant niece arrested in Michigan
Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda was charged Monday with attempted murder. Police believe the 19-year-old woman fled to Michigan after learning she was wanted for allegedly trying to poison her infant niece. Photo: Allen County Sheriff's Department
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana woman accused of trying to kill her infant niece by putting pain relief medication in a bottle of breast milk has been arrested in Michigan.
The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that a task force apprehended 19-year-old Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda Thursday in Bay City. Rodriguez-Miranda, of Fort Wayne, is awaiting extradition Friday to Indiana.
She was charged Monday with attempted murder.
Court documents say her mother found text messages in January that her daughter had exchanged with her boyfriend. One allegedly describes mixing crushed pills into breast milk.
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Rodriguez-Miranda was allegedly angry that her brother, his fiance and their daughter had been staying with her and her mother.
The 11-week-old baby wasn't injured. Court documents say the milk contained the equivalent of nine Excedrin tablets or capsules, enough to kill an adult.
"I'm gonna crush up some of these pills since she decided they can stay longer and kill their baby," Rodriguez-Miranda allegedly wrote in a Jan. 12 text.
In other texts, she wrote "I hope she dies" and told her boyfriend that, "I thought it was funny that I don't have an ounce of guilt." One of the text messages included a photo of a mortar and pestle with a white powder.
After reading the texts, Rodriguez-Miranda's mother took screen shots of the text messages and checked two bottles of breast milk kept in the home's refrigerator. She found that one bottle contained milk darker than the other and had residue at the bottom of the bottle and a greenish-colored ring.
The mother told police she had not used either bottle to feed the child, but she took the infant and the child's mother to a hospital emergency room. No signs of poisoning were detected in the baby.