Ricin letters sent to President and Senator

Not cool to kill our president and our senators. :mad:
 
Pretty scary. In the future, a person will have to be hired specifically to open boxes and letters. Experience: knowledge of bomb and such substance required!!

Just think that in the past, you would just open a mail. Just about any mails without any worries.

Here we are now!!! Scary!!
 
Foxrac said:
Not cool to kill our president and our senators. :mad:
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No, indeed. However, they were never at risk because all their mail gets screened first at a site far from their offices. It's the postal workers who are exposed to any dangers.
 
Reba said:
No, indeed. However, they were never at risk because all their mail gets screened first at a site far from their offices. It's the postal workers who are exposed to any dangers.
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You would think the person that send letter would know this, I thought this was common knowledge . I hope the people in the P O are OK.
 
Isn't that amazing that they've already made an arrest in this situation. Good work, law enforcement!
 
Charges against ricin suspect dropped - CNN.com
(CNN) -- [Breaking news update, published at 6:15 p.m. ET]

The attorney for Paul Kevin Curtis told reporters Tuesday that federal authorities are looking at another suspect in connection with ricin-laden letters sent to President Barack Obama and others. Charges against Curtis were dismissed Tuesday by a U.S. Attorney, who said "new information" has been uncovered. Curtis told reporters Tuesday that he wants to "get back to being normal."

[Original story, published 3:42 p.m. ET]

(CNN) -- The Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and other officials has been released from federal custody, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service said Tuesday.

Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator from Corinth, Mississippi, was charged with sending a threat to the president last week after letters containing the poison triggered security scares around Washington. But a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled to continue on Tuesday was canceled and Curtis was released.

There is a bond attached to his release, but the conditions of the bond are under seal at this point, said Curtis' attorney, Christi McCoy. She said her client has been framed by someone who used several phrases Curtis likes to use on social media.

"I do believe that someone who was familiar and is familiar with Kevin just simply took his personal information and did this to him," McCoy told CNN. "It is absolutely horrific that someone would do this."

Curtis was accused of sending letters containing "a suspicious granular substance" to Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi; and Sadie Holland, a Justice Court judge in Lee County, Mississippi. The FBI said the substance tested positive for ricin, a toxin derived from castor beans that has no known antidote.

The FBI said no illnesses had been found as a result of exposure to the toxin.

McCoy called Curtis an activist who is passionate about organ and tissue donation. Her client wants to right some wrongs in that industry, she said.

"I have a client who is not only not guilty, he is truly 100% innocent," she added. She did acknowledge that he has "a history of some mental issues," but said they are not severe.
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She said her client has been framed by someone who used several phrases Curtis likes to use on social media.

"I do believe that someone who was familiar and is familiar with Kevin just simply took his personal information and did this to him," McCoy told CNN. "It is absolutely horrific that someone would do this."
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So someone who sent those letters stole Kevin's ID in order to frame him. Thank God, the authorities found that out and should be able to get the right person through an IP address somehow hopefully.
 
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