Polk County deputies arrested a woman who they claim poisoned her neighbors' cats and dog by feeding them strips of chicken laced with concentrated insecticide. At a press conference at the Polk County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Grady Judd detailed the case saying that it was conducted by the PCSO's Animal Cruelty Investigative Unit and that it began on Aug. 16. Deputies were called as one family's chihuahua, Daisy, and two cats, Pancake and Luna, died "in horrific distress." A necropsy found that all three animals had ingested Phorate, a pesticide chemical used in insecticides. When deputies began the investigation, they questioned the family's neighbor, Tamesha Knighten, a 51-year-old registered nurse. Knighten had been seen on surveillance camera carrying a Styrofoam bowl of canned chicken and leaving it out for the animals. MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/nurse-lakeland-poisoning-neighbors-pets/67-48093492-173e-42f4-9387-8945bcc0abf2 ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay