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2008-10-31 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by ed 2008-10-31 12:12|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This guy's OLD HIPPIE. Let's see how he likes jail at his age.

Posted by ARMY GUY 2008-10-31 13:39|| 2008-10-31 13:39|| Front Page Top

#2 And if you think this guy's dumb, I give you...the feds

Feds: Suspect in anthrax hoax did it before

SAN FRANCISCO A California man suspected of mailing more than 120 hoax anthrax letters to media outlets, including The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was interviewed previously by the FBI after one similar mailing in 2007, but he was not charged.

Marc M. Keyser, 66, was interviewed by the FBI in January 2007 for allegedly sending a package containing a small aerosol can labeled "Anthrax," along with a compact disc, to the Sacramento News and Review newspaper, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in federal court.

Keyser told agents then that he was using the mailing as a publicity stunt for a novel he had penned, and "to model what would happen if terrorists were to use anthrax ... to show the amount of anthrax a terrorist might spray into the air conditioning system in a shopping mall." The can did not contain anthrax.

Agents warned Keyser he had violated federal law and could be prosecuted, but they didn't arrest him. Agent Filip Colfescu said in the complaint that Keyser at the time apologized for the hoax "and told agents they should not worry, that he would not be doing it again."

Oh. Okay. You seem like a nice guy...

Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner, who is prosecuting the current case, said Keyser was not charged in 2007 because "it was a very much more limited conduct at that point. It was one instance. He was admonished."

Oooooh...admonished! what now? Double secret probation?

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-31 14:08|| 2008-10-31 14:08|| Front Page Top

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