UPDATED: 1:14 pm CDT October 27, 2005

DALLAS -- A man convicted this week for tainting grocery store baked items b
y sprinkling dried
feces on the food is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.

Prosecutors had store surveillance videotapes from a Fiesta grocery store of
 two incidents in
July.

"He takes his own fecal matter and spread it to the wind over the food going
 to the public,"
prosecutor Will Ramsey said in court. "It's just so disgusting and, you know
 what, people get
hurt."

The 49-year-old taxi driver was charged with two felony counts of tampering 
with consumer
products. However, defense attorney Clark Birdsall told jurors that there wa
s no way to prove
that Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh's actions would have harmed anyone.

"It's OK to be angry at the defendant. I am. But you've got to follow the la
w," Birdsall said.

Customers had complained that the fresh-baked items smelled and tasted like 
manure.
Nahidmobarekeh said in a statement that he sprinkled the material on the bak
ed goods because
store personnel mistreated him.

The video showed Nahidmobarekeh take a bag from his pocket and toss what he 
said was feces on
baked items. The video showed him repeat the action several times.

In the statement, Nahidmobarekeh said he took his own feces and dried it in 
the sun. He then
used a cheese grater to grind the material into smaller portions.

A jury convicted Nahidmobarekeh, who now faces punishment ranging from proba
tion, to two to 20
years in prison.

Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The Associated Press cont
ributed to this
report.

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