Florida Woman Arrested for Spiteful Act

(Jacksonville, Florida) A 41-year-old local woman, Marie Lupe Cooley, was arrested this week for allegedly sabotaging her employer's computer files.

It appears that the files, representing an estimated $2.5 million in architectural data, were deleted due to spite.

"What we consider to be a disgruntled employee saw an ad in the paper, thought the ad was targeting her job, terminating her job. She decided to mess up everything for everybody," said Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson.

"She went into the server. She deleted all the files -- about seven years worth of files. She just sabotaged the entire business, thinking she was going to get axed."

However, the police report states Cooley was not going to be fired and that the ad she read was for another position.

So, Cooley saw what she thought was her job described in the want ads and furiously decided to strike back at her boss. It's troubling that Cooley was able to become irrational so quickly.

Cooley was charged with causing greater than $1,000 damage to computer files.

Tip: SuidaeEmpathy