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> Pakistani Caught On Tape Sprinkling Fecal Matter On Pastries At Dallas
> Store
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> http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_299132820.html
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> Man Sprinkles Fecal Matter On Food At Dallas Store
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> DALLAS - A Dallas cab driver was on trial Tuesday, accused of creating
> a public health danger.
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> Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh, 49, is on trial for allegedly throwing fecal
> matter on pastries at a Fiesta grocery store.
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> Police said they found a pile of human feces by his bed. He would dry
> it, either by microwave or just letting it sit out and grate it up with
> a cheese grater and then sprinkle it at the store, officials said.
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> Neither attorneys in the case is clear about a motive or why the
> defendant would resort to something so repulsive.
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> Prosecutors will show a surveillance videotape of the defendant, which
> shows him sprinkling a substance on the food.
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> The FBI arrested Nahidmobarekeh but turned the case over to local
> prosecutors after they determined it was not a national security issue.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102605dnmetbakery.6358dca.html
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> Gripes of stench preceded pastry-tainting allegations
> Dallas: Cabdriver on trial is accused of sprinkling grated feces on
> grocery store goods
> By TIM WYATT / The Dallas Morning News
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> Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a cabdriver accused of dusting
> pastries with his dried, grated feces at a Dallas grocery store last
> summer.
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> Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh, 49, faces two felony charges of tampering with
> consumer products in separate incidents in July at the Fiesta Mart at
> Ross Avenue and Henderson Street.
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> In his opening statement Tuesday afternoon, prosecutor Taly Haffar told
> jurors that the store workers went through seven months of customer
> complaints that unpackaged, fresh-baked goods "smelled and tasted like
> manure" until the defendant was arrested in late July.
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> Mr. Nahidmobarekeh pleaded not guilty in state District Judge Vic
> Cunningham's court. His defense attorney, Clark Birdsall, did not give
> an opening statement.
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> While a Dallas County epidemiologist testified about the possible
> health risks to customers who may have eaten the contaminated cookies,
> pastries and bread, the state's main evidence so far consisted of two
> videotapes of incidents on July 13 and July 24.
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> In those tapes, a man with his back to the camera is shown scattering
> something over baked goods in the store while other shoppers pass by.
> No one reacts to the man on the first tape, but employees eventually
> detect a strong odor coming from a bread bin and begin to clear out the
> products and begin cleaning up.
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> A second tape is similar, except that the store's security manager runs
> down and detains the man later identified by police as Mr.
> Nahidmobarekeh. Shortly after the suspect is led away, a young boy
> reaches up and grabs a cookie from the nearby racks.
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> "It looked like cracked pepper at the time," Albert Bazan, a Fiesta
> employee, testified. "But it had a real strong odor ... a foul odor."
>
> Dallas police re****ts state that a hazardous-material team collected
> samples of the contaminated goods and that authorities alerted the
> FBI's terrorism task force.
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> Testimony in the trial resumes today. If convicted, Mr. Nahidmobarekeh
> could face up to 20 years in prison.
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