Authorities said Eugene Richard Pittman, 52, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
According to the arrest warrant, Pittman's wife noticed a funny taste in her meal. The woman said she woke up later to find that her hands and mouth were duct-taped and her husband was holding her nose shut.
She said he told her she had two choices: that she could leave or she could die.
Police said Pittman willfully and feloniously "attempted to murder his wife by poisoning her food with Terro ant poison."
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