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Ricin Possibly Found at Las Vegas Motel
AP ^

Posted on 02/29/2008 3:14:39 AM PST by maquiladora

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Preliminary tests indicate that a package found at a motel contained the toxin ricin, and seven people have been taken to hospitals, authorities said.

Police were called to the Extended Stay America Motel on Thursday and retrieved a package from the motel manager that was determined to be a chemical or controlled substance, Officer Ramone Denby said.

Two preliminary tests indicate it contained ricin, he said. Results from further tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a second local lab are expected Friday, police said.

Homeland Security officials joined local police in the investigation. Officials from the FBI, Las Vegas Health District, a hazardous materials team and the National Guard were also at the scene.

Officers cordoned off the area and isolated the room where the substance was found.

Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing, Denby said. All appeared to be in good condition, he said. Three police officers who had been exposed were also taken to hospitals.

It takes between six and eight hours for someone exposed to ricin to show signs of contamination, Denby said.

A woman who answered the phone at the motel declined comment.

Ricin is made from the waste left over from processing castor beans, and can be extremely lethal. As little as 500 micrograms, or about the size of the head of a pin, can kill a human, according to the CDC.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; lasvegas; ricin; terrorism; vegas; wot
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1 posted on 02/29/2008 3:14:40 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora

Before the day is over the press reports will change to, Error, “testing” indicates the substance was not ricin. Nothing to see here, move along........


2 posted on 02/29/2008 3:19:04 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: maquiladora
And the previous occupants of the room were. . .

A case of a terrorist with 'Attention Deficit'?

OR. . .a traveling scientist, with the same.?

3 posted on 02/29/2008 3:19:28 AM PST by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: All

Just realised this was posted already, sorry for putting it in breaking.


4 posted on 02/29/2008 3:19:29 AM PST by maquiladora
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To: maquiladora

Not good if found to be ricin.

.....Bob


5 posted on 02/29/2008 3:20:10 AM PST by Lokibob (Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
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To: maquiladora

had Putin been staying there??


6 posted on 02/29/2008 3:20:34 AM PST by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: maquiladora

“Three motel employees and another person were quarantined and decontaminated at the site, then taken to hospitals for further testing,”

That simple statement hides a very uncomfortable process of being decontaminated.

Of course its better to be stripped naked and hosed down than to die from this poison.


7 posted on 02/29/2008 3:20:36 AM PST by driftdiver
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To: maquiladora

That’s something that can STAY in Vegas.


8 posted on 02/29/2008 3:22:17 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: driftdiver

Shades of Silkwood


9 posted on 02/29/2008 4:20:00 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: maquiladora

Somebody slipped up here. I didn’t see the required “this is not related to terrorism” statement in the article. Homeland Security’s public relations department must not have been notified.


10 posted on 02/29/2008 4:27:59 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: maquiladora
Local coverage....

Toxic substance ricin is found in LV hotel room

...Officials were downplaying the significance of the discovery late Thursday.

Snort.

11 posted on 02/29/2008 4:31:02 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: FreePaul
Somebody slipped up here. I didn’t see the required “this is not related to terrorism” statement in the article. Homeland Security’s public relations department must not have been notified.

That's okay. It's on the link at my reply #10 :)

12 posted on 02/29/2008 4:32:36 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

you are correct


13 posted on 02/29/2008 4:34:25 AM PST by a real Sheila (Have you hugged your "furry best friend" today?)
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To: maquiladora

dnc presidential campaign?
mark steyn, please pick up the white courtesy phone.


14 posted on 02/29/2008 5:30:09 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: mewzilla
That's okay. It's on the link at my reply #10 :)

Reply #11? Thanks for the reference, I'm relieved. I always feel more secure when Homeland Security makes their ritual pronouncements.

15 posted on 02/29/2008 5:40:59 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: MizSterious

Wow, I was in LV a few weeks ago, glad I’m not now.


16 posted on 02/29/2008 6:11:21 AM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: mewzilla
Toxic substance ricin is found in LV hotel room


'"Extended stay America" suite'?

....

17 posted on 02/29/2008 6:13:44 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: maquiladora; Admin Moderator

Sorry to post another thread on top of yours.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978217/posts?page=21#21

Can we get your post in ‘Breaking News’ at least?


18 posted on 02/29/2008 6:28:42 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: penelopesire

In response to your message in the thread that got locked

Yeah, I already had read that this morning.

There’s NO use for ricin other than killing people.

When used in “cancer research” it is a chemically altered state that is used and not directly from a castor bean.

That someone even brings that up as a possibility tells me precisely how ignorant they are, whether is is a newsie, or a cop.

I can PROMISE you there are VERY few COPS that know anything about castor beans and ricin other than the crap they’ve read in the main stream media.


19 posted on 02/29/2008 6:29:15 AM PST by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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To: maquiladora

Huh. It sounds like someone checked out. I hope they aren’t headed somewhere with more. Praying for our country.


20 posted on 02/29/2008 6:30:04 AM PST by CindyDawg
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