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In 2003, a package and letter sealed in a "ricin-contaminated" envelope was intercepted in Greenville, South Carolina, at a United States Postal Service processing center. [16] Ricin was detected in the mail at the White House in Washington, D.C., in November 2003. The letter containing it was intercepted at a mail handling facility off the ...
An FBI agent testified that no ricin or evidence of ricin ingredients were found in the man's home, nor did a preliminary forensic analysis of his computer reveal anything related to ricin. The defense attorney claimed in court that his client was being framed , possibly by a man with whom he had been feuding online.
April 2013 ricin letters: Ricin: 0 0 Washington, D.C., United States: An envelope that preliminarily tested positive for ricin was intercepted at the US Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, D.C. According to reports, the envelope was addressed to the office of Mississippi Republican Senator Roger Wicker. James Everett Dutschke [8] [9]
James Everett Duchtske tried to assassinate Barack Obama with ricin letters in 2013. He carried out the plot to frame his associate, Paul Kevin Curtis. The wild story is the focus of the Netflix ...
Ricin has been used in several plots to poison political opponents over the last few decades. Vane had previously been kicked out of the Virginia Kekoas, a self-described “prepper militia.”
Axel Rudakubana, 18, will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court by video link on Wednesday charged with production of a biological toxin called ricin What is ricin? Poison which Southport ...
Ricin (/ ˈ r aɪ s ɪ n / RY-sin) is a lectin (a carbohydrate-binding protein) and a highly potent toxin produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis.The median lethal dose (LD 50) of ricin for mice is around 22 micrograms per kilogram of body weight via intraperitoneal injection.
A Marine Corps veteran who authorities said tried to fake his own death after a falling out with a Virginia-based militia group pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegal possession of ricin, a ...