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Police in Cape Breton charge ‘Internet Black Widow’ with attempted murder

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The guest bedroom where Fred and Millie Weeks stayed at the Chamber\'s Guest House Bed and Breakfast in North Sydney, N.S., on October 1, 2012. Media reports in Nova Scotia say a 77-year-old woman arrested in connection with the suspected attempted murder of her husband in Cape Breton is a woman who became infamously known as the "Internet Black Widow." THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Plume

SYDNEY, N.S. – Police in Cape Breton have charged a 77-year-old woman infamously known as the “Internet Black Widow” with attempted murder after her husband suddenly became ill.

Melissa Ann Weeks of New Glasgow, N.S., is also charged with administering a noxious thing.

Investigators say the accused’s 75-year-old husband was taken to hospital in Sydney, N.S., on the weekend after falling ill at an inn.

They arrested a woman following an investigation into the health of the New Glasgow man who police say has since been treated and released.

Weeks is due in Sydney provincial court later today.

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