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2 Letters Addressed To Mayor Bloomberg Found To Contain Ricin
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and the NYPD Intelligence Division have launched an investigation. CBS News reported both letters had a Shreveport, Louisiana, return address, reported CBS 2's Tony Aiello.Law enforcement sources paraphrased the letters' message as saying, "This is a taste of what's to come if you come to take my gun." Civilian personnel in New York and in Washington who came into contact with the opened letters have not suffered symptoms, but three NYPD Emergency Service Unit officers who came into contact with the letter at the city mail facility on Gold Street in Manhattan have been treated for minor symptoms of ricin exposure that have since abated, police said. "They're in the hospital now being checked out as a precaution but it's not life-threatening, what they experienced," Browne said. Last month, ricin-tainted letters addressed to President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... , as well as U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker ...junior United States Senator from Mississippi, a member of the Republican Party. In December 2007 he was appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to fill the seat vacated by Trent Lott, winning reelection the next year. A lawyer by training, he was previously a Congressman, and before that a state senator... (R-Miss.) and an 80-year-old Mississippi judge, were intercepted. Former Mississippi State House candidate and child sexual abuse investigation subject J. Everett Dutschke, 41, has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in connection with that case. Posted by: trailing wife 2013-05-30 |
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