A Kentucky woman is arrested after a doorbell camera footage showed her “pepper-spraying” a DoorDash customer’s food during a delivery. However, she said that she had been aiming the substance at a spider.According to the footage, Kourtney N. Stevenson appeared to capture her spraying a substance onto a DoorDash customer’s food during a delivery in northern Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The incident, which took place on Dec. 7, left a married couple ill and quickly went viral online.Stevenson now faces multiple felony counts, including two level 6 felony charges of battery resulting in moderate injury and two level 5 felony charges of consumer product tampering, according to a news release from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office. As of Friday, she was held without bond pending extradition to Indiana on a warrant that carries a $3,500 cash bond.Records from DoorDash confirmed the driver was Stevenson. When detectives contacted her, she claimed she had been aiming pepper spray at a spider she spotted during the delivery rather than at the food. Investigators noted the overnight low in Indiana had been 35 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature at which outdoor spiders are not active.”Residents should be able to trust that the food they order for their families is safe,” Sheriff Noah Robinson said in a statement. “When someone violates that trust and endangers others, we will respond with urgency, and we will pursue charges.”The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office added: “She told detectives that she used pepper spray, not on the food, but to spray a spider she said she saw while making the delivery. She explained that she is terrified of spiders. The overnight low was 35 degrees Fahrenheit. At that temperature, outdoor spiders in Indiana are not active and would not be capable of crawling on exposed surfaces.”Stevenson told authorities she had been in Indiana visiting her father and was conducting DoorDash deliveries during her stay. DoorDash confirmed to Fox News Digital last week that it had terminated Stevenson.
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