Couple arrested after allegedly giving laxative-laced cookies to a group of striking school workers

An Ohio couple was thrown in jail on $1 million bonds earlier this week, after police were directed to a Facebook video showing the suspects allegedly committing multiple crimes — including crushing laxatives into batter for cookies that they later had delivered to protesters near their home.

What are the details?

Bo Cosens, 29, and his girlfriend, Rachel Sharrock, 25, were reportedly bothered by vehicles honking in support of the on-strike employees protesting outside a nearby school. The couple voiced their frustrations on Facebook, explaining that they couldn't sleep due to all the commotion.

The duo allegedly cooked up laxative-laced sugar cookies and bragged about having them delivered to the workers, in a scheme to break up the picket line. CNN reported that while Cosens and Sharrack might have thought what they did was just a prank, police are taking the issue very seriously.

Law enforcement interviewed the protesters who confirmed receiving the baked goods, but no one had eaten them.

"They still had the plate of cookies, and I was able to confiscate them," Uhrichsville Police Sgt. Michael Hickman told the Canton Repository. "We're currently looking for a lab to send the cookies in for testing to confirm that, in fact, that those have laxatives in them."

One protester told WKYC-TV she was shocked after finding out what they assumed had been a "goodwill offering" from the couple was actually sent with malice. She expressed relief that none of the workers' children had stumbled across the cookies and gotten sick.

Anything else?

The suspects did more than just show off their baking skills in the two-hour Facebook video. Police said Cosens threatened to get a gun and shoot the protesters during his rant, and also made an apparent drug deal in the footage posted to his social media account.

Cosens and Sharrock have each been charged with a felony for contaminating a substance for human consumption, and misdemeanors of complicity, disorderly conduct, and permitting drug abuse. Police are pursuing an additional felony against Cosens for trafficking drugs in a school zone.

Correction: This story has been updated after a previous version inaccurately stated the incident occurred in Iowa. It happened in Ohio.