A Florida lady given the nickname “Black Widow” by cops is accused of focusing on males on courting apps for his or her cash and deliberately drugging them.
Samantha Adams, 39, is going through tried homicide expenses after she allegedly spiked the drink of a 69-year-old man she met on an app with Benzos — which landed him within the hospital days later, the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned in a press launch.
Investigators imagine Adams deliberately blended Benzodiazepine into the sufferer’s drink whereas at his house in Haines Metropolis final month, in keeping with the arrest affidavit.
The person 30 years her senior additionally believes his youthful lover might have tried to poison him on no less than three different events at her Orange County residence.
Investigators launched a probe into Adams on Aug. 20 after the sufferer reported he had been admitted to the hospital three days prior for an “surprising medical incident.”
The older bachelor, who has not been recognized, felt “there have been suspicious circumstances that led as much as his medical drawback,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
The pair had gotten into an argument a couple of car that the sufferer had bought for Adams, he advised police.
Someday after the argument, the femme fatale went into the kitchen whereas carrying her purse and returned to the sufferer with two glasses of whiskey.
The sufferer drank from one of many glasses and issues between the pair “progressed romantically,” the arresting paperwork mentioned.
The person mentioned their intimacy escalated earlier than Adams abruptly stopped and demanded he pay her $1,000 to proceed.
He refused after which left Adams’ house.
Later within the night time, the sufferer handed out and was transported to the hospital, the place medical workers decided he had suffered a Benzo overdose.
The sufferer, nevertheless, mentioned he doesn’t have any Benzodiazepine remedy.
Previous to his hospitalization, the sufferer described earlier suspicious incidents whereas consuming alcohol with Adams.
After taking a shot with the girl at her house someday in August, the sufferer mentioned he turned unsteady and fell.
In one other incident final month, the sufferer handed out in his car whereas leaving Adams’ house.
The 69-year-old additionally reported an Aug. 15 incident the place he felt groggy leaving Adams’ residence and backed right into a car.
Throughout every event, the sufferer mentioned he had solely consumed a small quantity of alcohol.
Investigators additionally found that somebody had tampered with the person’s house safety system. He had beforehand seen Adams within the space of his house the place the surveillance system is stored, he advised cops.
The older man first met Adams on a courting app the place she glided by the identify “Nala” — which cops have been capable of hint the account again to the 39-year-old.
Investigators imagine there could also be different individuals who have been victimized by Adams.
“When you meet this lady on-line, beware. We name her the ‘Black Widow,’” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd mentioned in a Fb video.
“Her motivation is cash, and as now we have seen with this case, she is keen to go to nice lengths to get cash — together with [attempted] homicide,” Grady added.
The “Black Widow” was arrested on Aug. 27 at a shopping mall in Davenport, Fla., the Polk County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
On the time of her arrest, she was discovered with a stash of remedy contained in a bottle prescribed to another person.
The prescription bottle contained 19 Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen tablets, two-and-a-half oxycodone hydrochloride tablets, 9 Sertraline tablets, one partial capsule of Adderall, and one partial capsule of Alprazolam/Xanax.
Adams was slapped with a slew of expenses, together with second-degree tried homicide, tampering with proof, providing to commit prostitution, in addition to possession of prescribed drugs together with oxycodone, hydrocodone and alprazolam.
