Cheesecake Poisoner Sentenced In Forest Hills Lookalike Plot, DA Says

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — A 47-year-old woman was sentenced to prison after poisoning a look-alike woman from Forest Hills with a cheesecake in 2016, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Wednesday.

Viktoria Nasyrova, from Brooklyn, was sentenced to 21 years in prison after poisoning a 35-year-old woman with a sedative-laced cheesecake to steal her identification and other property in August 2016, prosecutors said.

Nasyrova was convicted of attempted murder and petit larceny in February, Katz said.

In 2016, she fed her friend the sedative-laced cheesecake so she could steal her identity and her property since both women have similar physical features, according to prosecutors.

She visited the Forest Hills woman, both of them Russian, in her home and gifted the 35-year-old a cheesecake on Aug. 28, 2016, the district attorney said.

After eating the cake, the woman felt sick before passing out, and her last memory allegedly was of seeing Nasyrova walking around her room, Katz said.

The following day, a friend of the Forest Hills woman discovered her unconscious in her bed with pills scattered around her body – as if the woman had tried to kill herself, prosecutors said.

After the 35-year-old was treated at the hospital, she found her passport, work authorization card, a gold ring, and other property were missing from her home, the district attorney said.

Homeland Security agents tested residues of the cheesecake, and confirmed the dessert was laced with the potent sedative Phenazepam, the district attorney said.

The pills found on the floor were also Phenazepam, prosecutors said.