San Jose, California - A woman who claimed she bit a human finger in a bowl of fast-food chili was behind bars on Friday, as police stepped up the hunt for the mystery digit's owner.
Police suspect that Anna Ayala planted the 3,8-centimetre piece of finger - complete with its nail - in a cup of chili she was served at a Wendy's fast food restaurant in California on March 22.
She was arrested in the desert gambling hub of Las Vegas late Thursday on a warrant for San Jose police and charged with grand theft and attempted grand theft.
The attempted grand theft charge is linked to losses is sales suffered by America's third-largest burger chain that the charge sheet said were in excess of $2,5-million, while the second charge relates to an alleged unrelated scam involving a mobile home.
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The finger of suspicion fell on the 39-year-old Ayala - who filed and then suddenly withdrew a lawsuit against Wendy's earlier this month - after forensic tests indicated the digit was not cooked in the chili.
Police said in a statement that tests had "disproved some of the statements made by suspect Anna Ayala with regard to the finger in her chili."
"No evidence indicates that the finger specimen came from the production, transportation and/or preparation of the Wendy's chili," police said.
But Davis said police had not solved the riddle of who the finger belonged to and stressed that a $100 000 reward offered by Wendy's for information about its owner was still up for grabs.
"We have information that we are following up on," Davis said of the search for the mystery donor.
Wendy's has set up a tip hotline for anyone with information about the finger.
Ayala told police she was so sickened when she bit into the severed finger in her meal that she immediately began vomiting.
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