{"id":345640,"date":"2025-12-13T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345640\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:07:11","slug":"doordash-driver-accused-of-dousing-delivery-told-authorities-she-was-trying-to-pepper-spray-a-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345640\/","title":{"rendered":"DoorDash driver accused of dousing delivery told authorities she was trying to pepper spray a spider"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DoorDash driver accused of dousing a customer\u2019s order in a substance in Indiana<\/a> told authorities that she had been trying to target a spider with pepper spray, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

Kourtney Stevenson, who was captured on the customers\u2019 doorbell camera using the spray while making a delivery in Evansville on Dec. 7, told detectives with the Vanderburgh County Sheriff\u2019s Office that she is \u201cterrified of spiders,\u201d the agency said in a news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overnight low was 35\u00b0F,\u201d the release states. \u201cAt that temperature, outdoor spiders in Indiana are not active and would not be capable of crawling on exposed surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stevenson, 29, was arrested after she canceled an in-person interview with the detectives, the agency said.<\/p>\n

She faces four felonies \u2014 two counts of battery resulting in moderate injury and two counts of consumer product tampering, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Stevenson, who told investigators that she was visiting her father in Indiana at the time, is being held without bond in Kentucky prior to her extradition to Indiana, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if she has a lawyer who can speak on her behalf.<\/p>\n

In an earlier statement, DoorDash said it had revoked Stevenson’s access to the platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have absolutely zero tolerance for this type of appalling behavior,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n

The customer whose delivery appears to have been sprayed told NBC News that his wife started choking and threw up after she took a bite of the meal last weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cResidents should be able to trust that the food they order for their families is safe,\u201d Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson said in a statement included in the release. \u201cWhen someone violates that trust and endangers others, we will respond with urgency and we will pursue charges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A DoorDash driver accused of dousing a customer\u2019s order in a substance in Indiana told authorities that she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-345640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}