PUNTA GORDA, Fla. – A Florida bride and her caterer have been arrested on charges of serving marijuana-laced food to unsuspecting wedding guests in February.
Danya Glenny, a 42-year-old Longwood, Fla. resident was arrested on April 18 along with a 31-year-old wedding caterer, Joycelyn Montrinice Bryant, owner of Jocelyn’s Southern Kitchen, for tampering, culpable negligence, and delivery of marijuana, according to police reports.
After a two-month-long investigation, authorities determined that Glenny had “schemed” with the caterer Bryant to put cannabis in the wedding guests’ food.
Seminole County Sheriff’s office released to The Epoch Times body cam video of the exchange between the newlywed couple and deputies at the scene.
The video shows the exchange between law enforcement, guests, and the wedding couple. The groom was heard saying that some of the guests were “known to personally use marijuana.” Officers, however, told him it is “illegal” to knowingly put drugs into the food of unsuspecting guests.
“If people have their own personal [weed] and [are] ingesting it, that’s one thing, but if somebody put it in the food for everybody, including minors or whatever the case might be, that’s where the problem kind of lies,” the Seminole County deputy is heard telling the couple.
The February 19 event took place in Longwood, an Orlando suburb. According to reports, after the nuptials dinner was served to approximately 30 to 40 guests, some began complaining of their “hearts racing” while others complained of “dizziness and nausea.” Some were taken to local hospitals for treatment.
Police were contacted and glassware and food were collected from the reception to be tested. Detectives said they found items served to guests such as beer, lasagna, and pudding “shot” desserts all tested positive for THC.
“I thought I was having a heart attack. My heart was racing and before I went to bed that night, I actually slept in my car right on-site,” Miranda Cady, a guest at the wedding told reporters.
“We want an explanation,” she said.
An affidavit filed in Seminole County said deputies “responded to a medical call for assistance on Feb. 19 at a wedding reception” in Longwood. The affidavit said “several guests told first responders” that they were experiencing “stomach pains, and one 40-year-old man asked to be “taken to an area hospital because he was ‘feeling weird.’” Another guest reported “feeling high,” while still another man said he called Uber to take him to the hospital, according to the affidavit.
The affidavit went on to say that deputies approached the bride and groom and asked them if cannabis was put into the wedding food to which the groom, Andrew Svoboda replied, “no, with a blank look on his face.” The bride, Glenny, also denied that “tampered food” had been served to the wedding guests.
The caterer, Bryant, had already left the premises with her workers, the affidavit stated.
Deputies took several plates of discarded food for testing, as well as glassware. At the scene on Feb. 19, a piece of bread and lasagna tested positive for THC, the affidavit said.
Glenny Svoboda will appear in court on June 7, according to court records.
Both women turned themselves in on April 18 but have since posted bond.
