A man was sentenced to weekends in jail after poisoning ex-wife’s coffee
A man who pleaded guilty to poisoning his ex-wife’s coffee with sleeping pills received a 60-day sentence after the judge determines he had shown a sense of remorse.
ABC 13 News reports 46-year-old Brian Kozlowski from Michigan, faces 60 weekend days behind bars and five years of probation after trying to poison his now ex-wife. Reports show Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith calls the sentence a slap in the face.
“You shouldn’t be able to commit a 15-year felony by poisoning someone and have to only serve weekends. It’s unbelievable to me,” Smith said.
According to ABC 13, his ex-wife who was not identified said, “Once Brian realized he’d lost me and there was no getting me to stay in this unhealthy marriage, his goal was to eliminate me,” she said in court.
Reports show his ex-wife filed for divorce in July 2018 and Kozlowski began putting sleeping pills into his wife’s coffee. She started feeling nauseous, tired and had blurred vision. She said one day she almost crashed into a wall while driving because she was so drowsy, ABC 13 reported.
After the sentencing prosecutors wrote in a release that the criminal guidelines for the charged offense indicated the defendant must do a minimum of 19 to 38 months in prison.
