Affidavit: Dust mask tied to suspect tests positive for ricin

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Affidavit: Dust mask tied to suspect tests positive for ricin

By Greg Botelho, CNN
April 30, 2013 -- Updated 2147 GMT (0547 HKT)

(CNN) -- A dust mask linked to 41-year-old Mississippi resident James Everett Dutschke, among other samples, tested positive for ricin, according to an affidavit unsealed Tuesday.

Federal authorities arrested Dutschke on Saturday on charges of possessing and using ricin in connection with letters sent to, among others, President Barack Obama.

Dutschke was taken into custody after authorities initially charged -- and then cleared -- Paul Kevin Curtis, another Mississippi man with whom he has sometimes feuded.

After his April 17 arrest, Curtis brought up Dutschke as someone who may be responsible for mailing letters with suspicious substances to Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, and Sadie Holland, a judge in Lee County, Mississippi, according to the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for northern Mississippi.

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[graham4anything]

1. It's evident the person who did it attempted to frame the first one and did a good job

Good police work here.
This is the same as the perp who blew up the abortion clinic and olympic park also framed someone else to take the blame.

Frames should alone be a long term jail sentence on top of the regular jail sentence.

[backscatter712]

4. The way things are going, this guy's likely to have Eric Rudolph for a cellmate.

Trying to poison the President with ricin, and framing someone else for the crime - he's gonna be cooling his heels in ADX Florence.

[rdharma]

2. Can this get more bizarre?

A bible-thumping Elvis impersonator who claims he has been wrongfully persecuted for reporting body parts he discovered at a hospital where he was a custodian and received death threats and car exploded ruining his country and western singing career being framed for shipping ricin to prominent political figures but was really a set-up by a rival from a karate dojo who was a failed Republican candidate for a minor office and accused child molester...........

........ is that "Dueling Banjos" I hear in the background?

[longship]

3. And the new perp is a Wayne Newton impersonator!!!

Can hardly wait for him to sing Danke Schön.

[rdharma]

5. That's always been one of my favorite songs..........

This has GOT TO BE MADE INTO A MOVIE!