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Employee Tampered With Products By Putting Coin In Meat Package In NY, Police Say
A woman is facing charges after investigators reported that she placed a coin in a meat package that was set to go out for retail consumption in New York.
Long Island resident Karen Palacios Gutierrez, age 38, of Hempstead, was arrested at about 4:20 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26, following an incident at the Ava Companies food packaging company, located in Hicksville at 383 West John St., the Nassau County Police Department reported.
Investigators determined that Gutierrez put a coin into a package while working as a meatpacker at about 10 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, police said.
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