A hot sauce bottle with the odor of bleach was found by the reporter more than a week after an alleged attack on Jan.
Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche asked city police Detective Michael Theis, one of the lead investigators in the case, if a hot sauce bottle was used to contain the bleach.
A container for the bleach was not initially recovered by investigators, but The Post reporter found the hot sauce bottle nine days after the alleged attack, on Feb.
“Are you trying to do our job?” one detective snapped when The Post called police to alert them to the possible evidence.