{"id":855007,"date":"2026-08-14T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:36:09","slug":"tasmanian-woman-charged-over-alleged-series-of-attempted-poisonings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855007\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian woman charged over alleged &#8216;series&#8217; of attempted poisonings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 43-year-old South Launceston woman has been charged over what police allege is a &#8220;series of attempted poisonings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Tasmania Police allege that over a period of months, the woman had delivered &#8220;intentionally contaminated drinks to a 47-year-old man on several separate occasions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The man did not consume the drinks and was not physically injured,&#8221; police said on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man and the woman &#8220;were known to each other&#8221;, police said, and &#8220;there is no indication that contaminated drinks were sent to any other person&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said on Friday they had charged the woman with two counts of attempted unlawfully administering poison with intent to harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She has been detained to appear in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 43-year-old South Launceston woman has been charged over what police allege is a &#8220;series of attempted poisonings&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,58208,48214],"class_list":["post-855007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-poisoning","tag-tasmania-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}