A New Mexico woman thought she was eating healthy when she accepted a yogurt sample from a male clerk at a local grocery store. After swallowing the sample, the woman thought she tasted an extra added ingredient that wasn’t on the menu.
So she took her suspicions — and what was left of the yogurt sample — to the New Mexico police department where tests were run on the yogurt. The lab tests came back positive for ejaculated protein, semen, and saliva.
Police immediately took out search warrants to obtain blood and DNA samples from the grocery store clerk, Anthony Garcia, 31. Police said the body fluids were necessary to make sure the suspect doesn’t have any sexually transmitted diseases.
The 28-year-old victim, whose name was redacted from the police report, was shopping with her daughter at the Sunflower grocery store in Albuquerque, when she was approached by Garcia, who worked in the store’s dairy department.
He offered her a sample of yogurt, which she accepted. But she was immediately grossed out and disgusted when she realized the sample “tasted like semen.”
In a handwritten statement, the woman wrote, “I spit it out on the floor many times because I was upset.”
She wrote that when she talked to the grocery store manager Catherine Flores, “she told me it was a Greek yoghurt. People love it has a lot of protein on it.”
The woman said she paid for her groceries and returned home where she discussed the incident with her boyfriend. She told him how Garcia “just come with one sample just for me,” and that “he was so pushy to tell me how it taste.”
Her boyfriend was sufficiently alarmed enough to accompany her back to the store, where they summoned the police. When police arrived, an “extremely nervous” Garcia told them he discarded the yogurt samples in a trash compactor after the woman complained about the taste.
Anthony Garcia is being detained by police until DNA test are completed later this week.
