Man accused in case of poison-laced letters has history of legal and other troubles
The Mississippi man charged with threatening the lives of President Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge by mailing them poison-laced letters had grandiose ambitions as an Elvis impersonator, believed that government drones were spying on him and harbored conspiracy theories about black-market trafficking in human body parts, according to court documents and people who know him.
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Court records show that Curtis has been arrested four times since 2000 in Prentiss County, where he lived most of the past two decades, and where charges against him have included cyber-harassment.
“I’ve been dealing on or off with him, or been made aware of his bizarre behavior, pretty much ever since I became sheriff,” said Prentiss County Sheriff Randy M. Tolar, adding that Curtis sometimes lashed out at him in online forums. “He just seemed to be a very paranoid person.”
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In other online posts, Curtis seemed to blame many of his problems, from broken relationships to financial duress, on an episode when he was working as a janitor for a medical center in Tupelo.
According to an extensive post on Ripoffreport.com — which was signed, “I am Kevin Curtis and I approve this message” — Curtis accidentally discovered bags of body parts in the hospital morgue and reported his finding to authorities, who he believed made him a “person of interest where my every move was watched and video-taped.” Curtis described cameras zooming in on him and said he was being followed by security officers.
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