FBI: 'Potential presence of ricin' found in Minneapolis apartment
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KARE11 ^
| May 8, 2019 | KARE Staff
The FBI says test results "indicated the presumptive potential presence of ricin" in substance found in a Minneapolis apartment. On
Tuesday, a person was hospitalized after "unconfirmed reports of ricin" at the Dinkytown apartment building, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department. Minneapolis Fire says crews were called to 515 14th Avenue SE Tuesday afternoon on a report of a hazardous substance. Crews evacuated the apartment building and isolated the affected area, according to Minneapolis Fire's Twitter account. The fire department tells KARE 11 that one resident was transported to the hospital. "Central to the ongoing FBI investigation is how the...
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Number of Ricin vs bomber media stories
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10/26/18 | Luigi
Does anyone know the number of stories that the MSM had of the ricin guy vs the bomber.
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Utah man indicted over mailed ricin threats to Trump, officials
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MSN ^
| October 26, 2018 | MSN
A former US soldier has been indicted on seven counts for mailing letters to Donald Trump and senior US officials containing material related to the deadly poison ricin. Utah
resident William Clyde Allen, 39, "knowingly threatened to use a biological agent and toxin, specifically ricin, as a weapon," according to a statement from the Justice Department and the US Attorney's Office in the western state. In addition to Trump, Allen's targets included Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, along with the FBI and CIA directors and commanders of the Air Force and Navy. Allen was arrested on October 5 shortly after the...
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Suspect alleged to have mailed ricin to President Trump taken into custody in Utah
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WJLA ^
| 10-3-2018 | Jennifer Weaver
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) -- An individual suspected of mailing ricin to President Donald Trump has been taken into custody, according to Police Cpt. Tyson Budge of the Logan Utah Police Department. The Herald Journal reported that the city of Logan and the Utah Highway Patrol are closing streets in the nearby
area for investigation purposes.
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Pentagon: Suspicious substance in envelopes was castor seeds, not ricin itself
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AP ^
| October 3, 2018 | Robert Burns
A Pentagon spokeswoman says the suspicious substance found in envelopes turned over to the FBI contained the substance from which the poison ricin is derived, but not ricin itself. Dana
W. White, the chief Pentagon spokeswoman, told reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Brussels that the substance was castor seeds. ADVERTISING
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Secret Service intercepts suspected ricin letter sent to Trump
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The Washington Times ^
| October 2, 2018 | S.A. Miller
The Secret Service intercepted an envelope suspected of containing ricin, a lethal poison, sent to President Trump, the service confirmed Tuesday. The letter was intercepted Monday, the same day ricin-laced mail was sent to the Pentagon. Another letter with suspicious white powder caused a scare at Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign headquarters in
Houston, but the powder turned out not to be hazardous. The letter targeting Mr. Trump did not reach the White House, the Secret Service said in a statement.
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Suspected ricin detected in mail sent to Trump, Pentagon
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CNN ^
(CNN)An envelope addressed to President Donald Trump contained a substance suspected to be ricin and appeared to be connected to similar envelopes sent to the Pentagon, a law enforcement source told CNN.
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Envelopes sent to Mattis, Navy chief test positive for ricin
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New York Post ^
| October 2, 2018 | Yaron Steinbuch
Two envelopes addressed to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson have initially tested positive for the deadly poison ricin at the Pentagon’s mail facility, according to a report. The
packages, which were delivered Monday, were intercepted before making it into the sprawling headquarters of the Defense Department in Virginia near Washington, DC, spokesman Chris Sherwood said Tuesday.
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Letter containing ricin found at Pentagon
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https://kfiam640.iheart.com/ ^
| 10/2/2018 | KFI AM radio Los Angeles
Just reported on KFI Los Angeles AM640 via radio broadcast.
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German prosecutors: Tunisian planned ricin terror bombing against 'unbelievers'
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Deutsche Welle ^
| 8/3/18 | Chase Winter
German authorities on Friday revealed further details of an investigation into a Tunisian man accused of planning an Islamist-inspired terror attack using a biological weapon. Sief
Allah H. was arrested in June in a commando raid on his apartment in the western city of Cologne. Investigators found "toxic substances" that were later determined to be deadly ricin poison. The 29-year-old was also alleged to have bomb-making materials in his possession. As part of a widening probe, investigators said Friday that prosecutors on August 1 charged the Tunisian with "planning a serious act of violence against the state" and membership in...
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Suspected Islamic extremist ricin attack plot foiled in Germany, prosecutors say
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Fox News ^
| June 14, 2018 | Lucia I. Suarez Sang
An Islamic terrorism plot to launch a deadly attack with the toxin ricin was reportedly thwarted in Germany, prosecutors revealed Thursday. Authorities said a 29-year-old Tunisian, identified only as Sief Allah H., was taken into custody Wednesday after an investigation uncovered he had procured the materials needed to create ricin in mid-May
and even succeeded in creating the toxin earlier this month.
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Man accused of making ricin, preparing "serious" act of violence [Germany]
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CBS News ^
| 2018-06-14 | ANNA NORYSKIEWICZ
BERLIN — Federal prosecutors in Germany have arrested a 29-year-old man for producing biological weapons at his home in the city of Cologne. Sief Allah H, a Tunisian citizen, is accused of using a coffee grinder to extract the deadly toxin ricin from castor beans. Ricin,
a biological agent 6,000-times more powerful than cyanide, has no known antidote. In a statement, authorities said they suspected him of preparing for a "serious act of subversive violence," but they stressed there was no evidence yet to suggest he was preparing for a large-scale attack or that he was a member of any...
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Vermont senior tested ricin recipe on retirement community, feds say
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cnn ^
| Sat December 2, 2017 | Steve Almasy
The cupboard above the stove in Betty Miller's retirement apartment contained bottles labeled "apple seed," "cherry seed," "castor beans," and "ricin," the FBI says. The
potentially deadly ricin, federal agents allege, was homemade by the 70-year-old to go into the food and drink of her neighbors at a Vermont continuing care retirement community. Earlier this week, the FBI was asked to come to the Wake Robin life care community in Shelburne, Vermont, to investigate a potentially toxic substance. When an agent interviewed Miller, she allegedly told him she was making ricin in her home and testing its effectiveness on other...
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Retiree made ricin, tested poison on neighbors
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WCAX ^
| 1 Dec 2017 | Jennifer Costa
. "The resident of the apartment in question is now involved with the criminal justice system and will not be returning to Wake Robin." Miller told investigators she researched ricin for months before harvesting 30-40 castor beans from plants growing on Wake Robin's property. She's
accused of using the beans to make ricin multiple times. The feds say on at least three occasions, Miller put the deadly powder in other residents' food and drinks to see what would happen.said.
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FEMA: Ohio emergency responders were exposed to deadly toxin [Ricin]
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WHIO ^
| 12/22/2016
[H]undreds of Ohio emergency responders were exposed to a potentially fatal toxin while training at a FEMA facility in Alabama. The federal agency released a statement Wednesday saying that they have received no reports of illness as a result of the ricin exposure. Ricin
is a poison found naturally in castor beans that kills cells by preventing them from creating protein. Exposure to the toxin can lead to death.
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16-year-old boy admits trying to buy killer poison 30 times deadlier than ricin...
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Daily Mail ^
| 4/9/15 | JENNIFER NEWTON
A 16-year-old boy has admitted trying to buy a biological toxin that is 30 times more deadly than ricin from undercover police on the 'dark web'. The
teenager from Mossley, Greater Manchester, who cannot be named for legal reasons, wanted to obtain abrin online. He was caught after an investigation was launched by the North West counter-terrorism unit in January. Today he pleaded guilty to trying to buy the toxin at Manchester Youth Court. He will be sentenced later this month for the offence, which is contrary to the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 and Section 1 of the Biological Weapons...
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