WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Investigators say they have determined no link between the deadly poison ricin delivered to a U.S. Senate mailroom and an earlier incident at a Greenville County postal facility.
The FBI and the Capitol Police Department are investigating whether the person who sent ricin-laced mail to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist also made threats in letters sent to the Upstate post office and a postal facility that serves the White House.
Image courtesy FBI
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In October 2003, a package containing ricin (shown, left) was sent to a Greenville County postal facility that serves the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport.
A letter with the package was signed "Fallen Angel" and included a threat to use the poison as a weapon unless new trucking regulations are rolled back.
The note read as follows:
to the department of transportation: I'm a fleet owner of a tanker company.I have easy access to castor pulp. If my demand is dismissed I'm capable of making Ricin.
My demand is simple, January 4 2004 starts the new hours of service for trucks which include a ridiculous ten hours in the sleeper berth. Keep at eight or I will start dumping.
You have been warned this is the only letter that will be sent by me.
Fallen Angel
Another letter that included the same threat and was signed with the same name was found in a postal facility that processes mail for the White House in November.
The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-866-839-6241
Warning note found on Greenville County ricin-tainted package. Image courtesy FBI
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