An Orange County Grand Jury indicted a California dermatologist April 5 on multiple felony counts after video surfaced allegedly showing her lacing her husband’s tea with drain cleaner.
Her husband suffered stomach ulcers from liquid drain cleaner she allegedly poured into his tea, a release from the Orange County District Attorney’s office reads. Yue “Emily” Yu, 45, of Irvine, California, was indicted on three counts of felony poisoning and one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury.
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Dr. Jack Chen, Yu’s husband, reportedly first noticed something was off with his tea in April 2022. To determine why his daily cup of tea suddenly started to taste strange, Chen installed hidden cameras in the kitchen. On three different occasions in July, prosecutors allege Yu was seen pouring a substance from a bottle of liquid drain cleaner into her husband’s tea that was left on the counter, the press release stated. (RELATED: ‘Just For The Record, I Didn’t Drug You’: Chilling Details Emerge On How Dentist Allegedly Poisoned Wife)
“After the first video of finding out she was poisoning him, he took his morning tea and put Saran wrap over it,” Chen’s attorney Steven Hittelman told USAToday in August 2022. ” She still peeled it off and put the Drano in it.”
Afterwards, Chen collected samples from his tea and turned it over to the Irvine Police Department who later turned it over to the FBI for testing. Tests concluded the tea contained a substance “consistent with liquid drain cleaner,” the release stated.
“Our homes should be where we feel the safest,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer stated in the release. “Yet, a licensed medical professional capitalized on her husband’s daily rituals to torment her husband by systematically plying his tea with a Drano-like substance intending to cause him pain and suffering.”
If convicted on all counts, Yu faces a maximum sentence of eight years and eight months. Her arraignment date is scheduled for April 18.