Fla. Woman Charged After Allegedly Drowning Roommates Pet Spider in Ginger Ale [Video]

A woman in Florida is facing animal cruelty charges after deputies alleged that she drowned her roommate’s pet spider in soda and killed it.

On Wednesday, July 31, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office announced in a now-deleted press release that a 43-year-old woman intentionally killed her roommate’s small jumping spider on July 15, according to the Miami Herald and local ABC affiliate station WKRG.

The sheriff’s office said that the woman’s roommate returned to her home in Crestview, Fla., about 50 miles outside of Pensacola, and found the spider and its enclosure missing from their home, the outlets reported. Per an affidavit obtained by The Herald, the woman allegedly admitted to killing the spider, texting her roommate to admit that she had drowned it in Ginger Ale.

According to records from the Okaloosa Department of Corrections, the woman was charged on July 29 with animal cruelty as well as petty theft for the missing enclosure. She was …