Is nothing sacred? San Jose resident Robert Lewis Lochbridge, 67, sits in the clink today after allegedly spiking his 63-year-old girlfriend's Vitaminwater with chlorine while she was at a nursing home in San Rafael. According to Marin Independent Journal, "Lochbridge was booked into Marin County Jail this weekend and held on $500,000 bail after attendants at the Northgate Care Center...became alarmed at bottles of water he had brought for an ailing woman who resides there."

Nursing home staff said the popular sugary water Lochbridge brought in "didn't smell right" and "smelled like chlorine." Marin IJ has more:

"The preliminary tests indicate a level of chlorine in one bottle that was higher than you find in a swimming pool," [San Rafael police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher] said. More tests will be conducted on samples of the water.

"He was telling her it was vitamin and mineral water to make her better," Rohrbacher said, adding the woman was instructed to drink four ounces of the concoction every hour in a routine that apparently started several weeks ago. "He told her it would be good for her."

As we now know, Vitaminwater, a (rather tasty) product of the Coca-Cola Company, is nothing more than Kool-Aid playing dress up. Anyway, Lochbridge was allegedly was trying to control his (ex)girlfriend's finances. He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, poisoning or adulterating food and drink, and cruelty to a dependent adult.

Lochbridge is due in court on Tuesday at Marin County Superior Court.

[Marin IJ]