A California dermatologist who allegedly repeatedly poisoned her husband by pouring drain cleaner into his tea last year, causing him stomach ulcers, has been indicted by a grand jury, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Yue Yu, of Irvine, was indicted on three felony counts of poisoning and one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury after she allegedly tainted her husband’s tea over several weeks with what District Attorney Todd Spitzer called a “Drano-like substance intending to cause him pain and suffering.”
Her husband of a decade, who police have not publicly identified, allegedly caught Yu “pouring a substance out of a bottle of liquid drain cleaner into her husband’s tea that was left on the counter” on three different dates last July via cameras he set up in the family’s kitchen, according to the news release from the district attorney’s office. The husband previously identified the beverage as a “hot lemonade drink.”
The husband’s lawyer identified him on Thursday to NBC News as Dr. Jack Chen, 53, a radiologist.
“We are satisfied that the grand jury saw the evidence and made the decision that we believe is the appropriate decision and this is another step in getting a horrible turn of events resolved,” attorney Steven Hittelman said.
The couple’s divorce is pending, and Chen and his two children, ages 8 and 9, have an active domestic violence restraining order against Yu, though the children are able to have unsupervised visits with her, Hittelman added.
Chen set up the cameras after he “began noticing a strange taste to the tea he drinks every day” in early April 2022, the district attorney’s office said. After the cameras caught the alleged poisoning, he gave samples of the tea to the Irvine Police Department, who forwarded them to the FBI, “which confirmed the substance was consistent with liquid drain cleaner,” according to the district attorney’s office.
Yu’s former attorney, David Wohl,…
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