Man Who Put Razors, Screws in Pizza Dough Sentenced to Nearly 5 Years in Prison

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A man who tampered with supermarket pizza dough by putting razor blades and screws in the product was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison Thursday, the Associated Press reported. Customers in certain Maine and New Hampshire stores bought and discovered the compromised dough in 2020, spurring investigations and concern among their communities.

In an agreement with prosecutors, Nicholas Mitchell, 39, pleaded guilty in June to one of two counts of tampering with a consumer product, the AP reported. One of those counts was dropped as part of the plea agreement, Foster's Daily Democrat reported.

The native of Dover, New Hampshire, was also ordered to pay almost $230,000 in restitution to Hannaford supermarkets, which carried and sold the tainted pizza dough. Mitchell previously worked for the company that made the dough brand with which he tampered, but Saco police said in a post on their Facebook page that a review of surveillance footage indicated that the product was tampered with inside the store.

The discovery of the tampering prompted Hannaford to recall the brand's dough and cheese products sold from all of the chain's 184 stores across five states within a period of a few months, the Democrat reported.

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