A Florida woman accused of murder accrued additional charges after asking the arresting officers for a soda then proceeding to pouring it on herself in an attempt to erase any forensic evidence.
Nichole A. Maks, 35, was charged with tampering with evidence and resisting arrest with violence and premeditated first-degree murder in the death of 79-year-old Michael Cerasoli.
Per New York Post, "Firefighters were called to a smoldering home on the 600 block of Clark Street at 1:46 a.m. on July 1. Clothes on the second floor had been set on fire, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital, but said that they had “no [additional] information on the arson investigation.”
After the first responders found the 79-year-old face down in a pool of blood after appearing to have suffered blunt force trauma, authorities began looking for Maks after the landlord alerted police that she was Cerasoli's roommate.
When authorities finally caught up with Maks they found her with blood on her leg and ripped shirt. She evaded questions about her whereabouts and where she lived and denied knowing Cerasoli. After eventually leaving and returning with an arrest warrant, Maks was questioned further before she asked for a can of soda. After officers obliged she “began to resist and poured the can of soda all over her body and hair… pulling away from officers in attempts to interfere with the possible evidence on [her] body.”
