A California dermatologist has been arrested after her husband secretly recorded her allegedly poisoning him by pouring Drano into his drinks, based on officers and a submitting for a restraining order.
Dr. Yue Yu, 45, was arrested Thursday and booked into the Orange County Jail, the Irvine Police Department mentioned in a news launch. She was launched Friday after posting $30,000 bond.
Her husband of 10 years, who was not recognized by police, contacted Irvine authorities Thursday, saying he suspected Yu was poisoning him. An legal professional for the husband recognized him as Dr. Jack Chen, 53, a radiologist.
In a bid to catch his spouse within the act, the husband “placed cameras in the home that surreptitiously recorded evidence in the case,” and shared the footage with police, Lt. Bill Bingham advised NBC News.
Police arrived on the couple’s house with a search warrant the identical day, interviewed Yu and subsequently arrested her.
Yu, who has not been formally charged within the case, “vehemently and unequivocally denies ever attempting to poison her husband or anyone else,” her legal professional, David E. Wohl, mentioned.
According to police, the husband fell sick “over the course of one month” and sustained “significant internal injuries.”
Chen’s legal professional mentioned his consumer filed for a restraining order in opposition to Yu on Friday. He filed for divorce the identical day, court docket information present.
Chen mentioned within the submitting for a restraining order that he caught Yu on video on three events placing the drain cleaner into his scorching lemonade drink.
The alleged poisonings occurred July 11, 18 and 25, based on the submitting.
In the July 18 incident, Chen allegedly coated his cup with plastic wrap. When he was gone, Yu took the drain cleaner from underneath the kitchen sink, eliminated the cellophane overlaying, poured the liquid into the lemonade, then changed the cellophane, the submitting mentioned.
Chen mentioned he began noticing a “chemical taste” in his lemonade in March and April. He went to a health care provider who identified him with two abdomen ulcers, gastritis and irritation of the esophagus. The well being points prompted him to arrange the cameras.
The couple married in 2012 and have two kids, ages 7 and eight.
Yu is a dermatologist affiliated with Providence Mission Hospital.
A spokesperson for the hospital mentioned Yu is a dermatologist with Mission Heritage Medical Group, which serves communities in South Orange County, and her workplace isn’t situated within the hospital.
“This is an active police investigation and Mission Heritage Medical Group is cooperating fully with the Irvine Police Department,” the spokesperson mentioned. “The incident is a domestic matter which occurred in Irvine, and we want to reassure our community that there has been no impact on our patients.”
Wohl, Yu’s legal professional, mentioned his consumer, who goes by her first identify Emily, is “a well-respected physician.”
“Her objective has at all times been to assist folks and by no means to hurt folks. Accordingly, she additionally strongly denies her husband’s claims of abusing him and their kids emotionally and bodily,” he added.
“We are very involved that these false allegations have been made by her husband in an try to realize a bonus in his just lately filed divorce and custody case in opposition to her,” Wohl said.
NBC News has reached out to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for comment.