Mississippi Elvis Impersonator Charged With Sending Poisoned Mail To Officials

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

HUNTER WALKER 1:33 PM EDT, THURSDAY APRIL 18, 2013

An Elvis impersonator named Paul Kevin Curtis who lives in Corinth Mississippi was charged Thursday for allegedly sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wiker (R-MS), and a judge in Lee County Mississippi. Court documents released by the Department of Justice show Curtis was charged with one count of sending a letter "containing threats to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States" and a count of sending a letter "containing a threat to injure the person of others."

A supporting affidavit made by FBI Special Agent Brandon Grant and Secret Service Special Agent Victor Dickerson details Curtis' alleged crimes, his history of correspondence about various conspiracy theories with Wicker's office and on Facebook.

If convicted, Curtis faces a maximum of 15 years in prison, $500,000 in fines, and three years of supervised release. View the criminal complaint and supporting affidavit below.

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mississippi-elvis-impersonator-charged-with-sending-poisoned-mail

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copy of charges and other affidavits at link, above.

[valerief]

1. Dayum! You can't make this stuff up. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

20. I thought it was an Onion headline. nt

[valerief]

23. Ha! I know. It reads like it. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

25. If reality keeps going the way it is...

The Onion will go out of business.

[RevStPatrick]

2. Oh, Elvis...

It's just so sad what some people have done in your name.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. The Sacred Heart of Elvis

I'd love to have that in velvet to hang above my bed.

[PearliePoo2]

3. Bye-Bye!

I'm glad they caught him...what a dumb-ass.

[ISW]

4. Lock him up for life!

[Gore1FL]

8. It would seem appropriate

The did so to John Hinkley jr. when he tried and failed a presidential assassination

[Politicalboi]

6. Maybe now he will change from Elvis

To Johnny Cash.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. What else?

[awoke_in_2003]

22. You win. nt

[Javaman]

9. "And for my next number, I'd love to sing a favorite from the King...

Jail house rock."

I know, I know, too easy.

[TeamPooka]

10. that was fast. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Come on and do the jailhouse rock with me.

ETA: Isn't that Leslie Nielsen at the end?

There are many impersonators, but there is only one Elvis.

[TeamPooka]

12. If he takes requests I'd like to hear 'Return To Sender' and 'Jailhouse Rock'. nt

[In_The_Wind]

21. +1

[progressoid]

13. So...I'm guessing he's not a "dark skinned" man then.

[Babel_17]

14. There's more

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57580199-504083/paul-kevin-curtis-miss-man-arrested-in-ricin-tainted-letter-case/

Multiple online posts on various websites under the name Kevin Curtis refer to the conspiracy he claimed to uncover when working at a local hospital from 1998 to 2000.

The author wrote the conspiracy that began when he "discovered a refrigerator full of dismembered body parts & organs wrapped in plastic in the morgue of the largest non-metropolitan healthcare organization in the United States of America."

Curtis wrote that he was trying to "expose various parties within the government, FBI, police departments" for what he believed was "a conspiracy to ruin my reputation in the community as well as an ongoing effort to break down the foundation I worked more than 20 years to build in the country music scene."

Thankfully no lives were lost and maybe he'll get the help he needs.

[SunSeeker]

15. Another anti-government wingnut.

"In 2008, CURTIS' ex-wife reported to the Booneville Police Department that CURTIS was extremely delusional, anti-government and felt the government was spying on him with drones."

http://www.scribd.com/doc/136731039/Paul-Kevin-Curtis-Affidavit

[MADem]

16. Wrong kind of letter, there, Elvis!!

[olddad56]

17. He will be singing the jailhouse rock for a long time to come.

[PD Turk]

19. aww, welll they didn't have to lock him up

all they really needed to do was to return to sender

[Bandit]

24. fifteen years????? Pot smokers get more time than that

In some states first offense for possession is twenty years....