78°F
weather icon Clear
Las Vegas, NV
Nation and World

Utah woman arrested after allegedly poisoning boyfriend with Drano

Elle Yoshio Weissman (Salt Lake County Jail)
Elle Yoshio Weissman (Salt Lake County Jail)
More Stories
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a roundtable on criminal cartels with President Do ...
US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup
FILE - The Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., Jan. 11, ...
Social Security recipients get a 2.8% cost-of-living boost in 2026
President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a roundtable on criminal cartels ...
Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over TV ads
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 22, ...
US hits $38T in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1T outside of the pandemic
The Associated Press
May 3, 2019 - 10:36 am
 
Updated May 3, 2019 - 11:40 am

SALT LAKE CITY — Police have arrested a woman in South Salt Lake on suspicion that she fed her boyfriend drain cleaner with the intention to kill him.

A jail booking report shows that 43-year-old Elle Yoshio Weissman was arrested Tuesday after telling investigators she had given her live-in boyfriend Drano so he would enter “an eternal sleep.”

Police were called to a local urgent care center where the man was being treated after Weissman told medical staff that she had slipped her boyfriend Drano. She said her boyfriend thought she was giving him medicine.

South Salt Lake police detective Gary Keller says the 50-year-old victim survived and is being treated at a local hospital.

Weissman is booked in jail. It’s unknown if she has an attorney.

MOST READ
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.
THE LATEST
US Vice President JD Vance arrives at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Oct. 21, 2025. Vance is ...
Vance hails progress on Gaza peace accord despite violence
By Hadriana Lowenkron and Dan Williams Bloomberg News

The vice president traveled to the region about a week after President Donald Trump unveiled a U.S.-led agreement to end the two-year war between Israel and Hamas.

Daniel Thorpe, of Hoboken, N.J., uses the Amazon app to pay for his purchase at the Amazon 4-st ...
Amazon cloud outage takes down online services around the world
By Kelvin Chan The Associated Press

A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world Monday, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.

Freed Israeli hostages, twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, who were recently released from Hama ...
Renewed fighting tests Gaza ceasefire
By JOSEF FEDERMAN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press

Gaza’s fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas militants had killed two soldiers.

MORE STORIES