Letter to US Senator Tests Positive for Ricin Poison

[Byrns]

There's actually a charge called "Attempting to Assassinate the President". This guy is currently on trial for it.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/lo...137494133.html

[CaptainCrunch]

I'm pretty sure that every piece of correspondence going to the president is x-rayed, chemical tested, radiation tested.

It wasn't that long ago that they used chemical sniffing dogs on presidential meals when he was on the road.

[troutman]

There has been an arrest.

Officials: Arrest made in ricin scare
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/17/politi...ted/index.html

The person was arrested in the Tupelo, Mississippi

[metallicat]

In the bombings, or in these letters?

[Senator Clay Davis]

Crazy....

A Mississippi man accused of mailing letters with suspected ricin to national leaders believed he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and claimed "various parties within the government" were trying to ruin his reputation.

Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, is charged with threatening President Barack Obama and others, according to a Thursday news release from the U.S. Department of Justice. He is scheduled to appear in federal court on the two charges later Thursday, and if convicted could face up to 15 years in prison

An FBI affidavit also released Thursday said Curtis sent three letters with suspected ricin to President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and a Mississippi judge. The letters read:

"No one wanted to listen to me before. There are still 'Missing Pieces.' Maybe I have your attention now even if that means someone must die. This must stop. To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance. I am KC and I approve this message."

The affidavit says Curtis had sent letters to Wicker's office several times before with the message "this is Kevin Curtis and I approve this message."

In several letters to Wicker and other officials, Curtis said he was writing a novel about black market body parts called "Missing Pieces."

Curtis also had posted language similar to the letters on his Facebook page, the affidavit says.

The documents indicate Curtis had been distrustful of the government for years. In 2007, Curtis' ex-wife called police in Booneville, Miss., to report that her husband was extremely delusional, anti-government and felt the government was spying on him with drones.

Curtis was arrested Wednesday at his home in Corinth, near the Tennessee state line. He was being held in the Lafayette County jail in Oxford, Miss.

http://news.yahoo.com/miss-man-charg...163303256.html

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Crazy....

http://news.yahoo.com/miss-man-charg...163303256.html

You left out the best part... That he is an Elvis impersonator.

[mikey_the_redneck]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

You left out the best part... That he is an Elvis impersonator.

...and a christian democrat on top of it!

[Duruss]

Guy sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic. I for see many psych tests in his future. Probably a believer in contrails and anti-vax theories too.

[metallicat]

What the?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...r-suspect.html

[puckluck2]

Charges dropped.

[Senator Clay Davis]

This baby got pretty interesting this week

A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been arrested for orchestrating the scheme herself, law enforcement officials said Friday.

It was not immediately clear what charges would be filed against Shannon Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, a mother of five who has played bit roles in television shows. Two U.S. law enforcement officials confirmed her arrest to The Associated Press but spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly during the ongoing investigation.

FBI agents wearing hazardous material suits were seen going in and out of her house Wednesday in New Boston, about 150 miles northeast of Dallas near the Oklahoma and Arkansas borders. Officials have said the search was initiated after Richardson contacted the FBI and implicated her husband, Nathaniel Richardson.

An attorney for Shannon Richardson, 36, couldn't immediately be found.

John Delk, who represents Nathaniel Richardson, told the AP on Thursday that his client had filed for divorce and may have been set up by his wife. He said his client was cooperating with authorities investigating the letters, which were sent last month to Bloomberg, his Washington gun-control group and the White House threatening violence against gun-control advocates.

"There are a lot of factors I'm aware of that indicate (Nathaniel Richardson) was set up in this deal by her," Delk said.

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-tex...180740850.html

[Flash Walken]

She's a bigtime tea partier if my memory isn't acting up.

[gargamel]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

This baby got pretty interesting this week


http://news.yahoo.com/ap-sources-tex...180740850.html

Not that we need multiple ricin letter threads, but this new arrest is unrelated to the ricin letters that were being discussed earlier in the thread.

In the post-Marathon-bombing ricin letter case, a martial arts instructor tried to set up an Elvis impersonator. In this ricin letter case, this woman tried to set up her husband.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by gargamel

Not that we need multiple ricin letter threads, but this new arrest is unrelated to the ricin letters that were being discussed earlier in the thread.

In the post-Marathon-bombing ricin letter case, a martial arts instructor tried to set up an Elvis impersonator. In this ricin letter case, this woman tried to set up her husband.

The ricin letter mailing hobby seems to attract some rather interesting characters. I wouldn't mind attending one of their conventions. Hopefully they use evite for the invitations though.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Love the excuse "Yeah I thought it would get found by security first and it would be harmless"..

A Texas actress who sent ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and the New York mayor then tried to blame the crime on her soon-to-be ex-husband was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Wednesday.

A federal judge gave Shannon Guess Richardson, 36, the maximum sentence under her plea deal on a federal charge of possessing and producing a biological toxin. Richardson was also ordered to pay restitution. She had pleaded guilty to the charge in December.

"I never intended for anybody to be hurt," she told the court, adding later, "I'm not a bad person; I don't have it in me to hurt anyone."

Richardson, who had minor acting roles in film and television, said she thought security measures would prevent anyone from opening the letters addressed to Obama and the now-former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Prosecutors say Richardson mailed three letters from New Boston, outside Texarkana, then went to police and claimed that her estranged husband had done it. She was arrested last June after authorities said she tried to implicate her husband, who had filed for divorce.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-woman-se...170936006.html

[Displaced Flames fan]

Should be life.

[Daradon]

So it was basically a revenge plot against her hubby? Or did it have political meaning too?