Washington: The FBI on Saturday arrested a man on charges of allegedly sending poisonous ricin-laced letter to US President Barack Obama and other leaders. The individual identified as Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested from his Mississippi home, the FBI said.
This is the second arrest in the case after investigating authorities withdrew their case against Paul Kevin Curtis earlier this week. Curtis had been arrested on April 19 on suspicion of being the sender of these letters.
Besides Obama, the alleged ricin-laced letters were also sent to Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi and a Mississippi judge Sadie Holland. This delivery of poisonous letters in the immediate aftermath of Boston bombings had created widespread anxiety.
Neither the US President nor the Senator were in danger at any point. All letters addressed to the White House and Congress are received at a far away off-site facility where they are scanned for any suspicious objects or substances before being cleared for dispatch to their destination. ...
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11:57 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Tupelo: Charges of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others were dropped on Tuesday against an Elvis impersonator from Mississippi who has said since his arrest last week that he had nothing to do with the case. Meanwhile, in Tupelo, numerous law enforcement officers converged on the home of another Mississippi man, Everett Dutschke, including some in hazmat suits. No charges have been filed against him and he...
06:38 AM, Apr 24, 2013
As Arvind Kejriwal's indefinite fast against "inflated" power bills entered the ninth day on Sunday, his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said it will deliver on Monday over 6.38 lakh letters it collected from Delhiites to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit urging her to cut power tariff. ...
12:27 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Continuing its efforts to expose the role of state actors in Pakistan and the LeT chief in 26/11 attacks, India has again sent a fresh Letters Rogatory to Morocco for questioning of Faiza Outalha, Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley's estranged wife, after its earlier request was returned due to technical reasons. ...
02:30 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Dublin: Five Northern Ireland politicians received letters containing bullets on Wednesday as an extremist Protestant campaign of death threats and street protests escalated over Belfast City Council's decision to stop flying the British flag year-round. Hours later, an off-duty police officer narrowly avoided being shot when confronted by a gunman outside his home in the mainly Protestant town of Bangor. No group claimed responsibility. The Police Service of Northern Ireland...
04:56 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Hong Kong: Women can tell with some accuracy whether an unfamiliar male is faithful simply by looking at his face, but men seem to lack the same ability when checking out women, according to an Australian study published on Wednesday. In a paper that appeared in the journal Biology Letters, the researchers found that women tended to make that judgement based on how masculine-looking the man was. "Women's ratings of...
10:24 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Despite persistent denials of wrongdoing, there's more embarrassment in store for Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise. According to a report in the Times of India, a letter with the forged signature of a senior Uttar Pradesh government official was allegedly used to request the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to release the second tranche of funds for Louise's trust for the differently-abled,...
08:15 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Kolkata: An engineering student of Jadavpur University received death threats after he became a victim of a sustained ragging campaign for the second time in two years. Siddhant Mundra said that he received two letters threatening that he would be killed if he didn't drop out of the university. The student, who hails from Murshidabad district took admission in 2011 but quit after intense ragging. When assured by the university...
04:58 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress continue to trade barbs in the Maharashtra irrigation scam with members of both the parties releasing letters after letters implicating leaders of the other. Hours after Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Bansal alleged that BJP President Nitin Gadkari had sent him a letter to release funds for the Gosikhurd project, the Opposition party has hit back. The BJP has now...
08:14 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: The French government has bestowed the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters on Indian theatre personality Ebrahim Alkazi for his contribution to modern theatre and making it accessible to a wider audience. The 87-year-old was given the honour, the French embassy said in a statement. Alkazi has been supporting the visual arts through the Alkazi Foundation of the Arts. Alkazi, as head of the National School...
11:03 AM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi-based RTI activist has brought out a book containing various correspondences between the Prime Minister's Office and the Delhi Government secretariat related to Commonwealth Games. The 496-page book is titled 'PMO to Delhi Secretariat - RTIs expose Commonwealth scam' and is written by advocate Vivek Garg. The book is a compilation of letters and notes from Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Members of Parliaments, former and present...
12:29 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Pittsburgh: A love letter written to a US college student in the state of Pennsylvania and delivered 53 years late will be mailed to its intended recipient who is now an elderly ma. A spokeswoman for the California University of Pennsylvania said the letter, addressed to Mr Clark C Moore and postmarked February 20, 1958, arrived mysteriously in the mail room last week. On Thursday, university officials located Moore, now...
03:29 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Not an SMS or a Facebook message, when was the last time you penned down a love letter the traditional way? Have you ever written a love letter at all in the SMS era?
05:28 PM, Jan 31, 2011
London: Legendary Beatle John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono has handed over his letters to a British book company, reportedly for over $500,000. Publishers at Orion Books in London now own the intellectual property rights to the letters and they plan to release the letters in 2012, reports contactmusic.com. "For the most part they have never been seen before... They're full of wonderful drawings. They are funny, sad and very human...
10:38 AM, Jan 23, 2011
New Delhi: In a new twist in Aseemanand's confessions, days after letters allegedly written by him to the Presidents of India and Pakistan emerged, his brother has denied receiving any letter. The letters were allegedly written two days after his confessional statements before the CBI. The two letters, allegedly written by Aseemanand, not just confessed to his guilt but also reiterated his confessional statement made before the CBI. Aseemanand had...
10:40 PM, Jan 18, 2011
The letters sent last week asked Chidambaram not to consider giving the Indian Police Service cadre to the state police officials. ...
08:12 PM, Aug 04, 2010
Karun was awarded 'Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters' award. ...
10:25 PM, Dec 05, 2009
Charles had written these letters to Montreal's Janet Jenkins. ...
09:49 AM, Mar 08, 2009
You don't have to be a literary genius to pen a love letter. ...
06:39 PM, Feb 10, 2009
