If convicted, Curtis will face a maximum of 15 years in prison, $500,000 in fines and three years of supervised release. It adds that Curtis’ ex-wife reported to police in 2007 that he was “extremely delusional, anti-government, and felt the government was spying on him with drones.” Corrie Robbins of the Booneville Police Department in Mississippi told investigators that Curtis had been investigated several times since 2007, the affidavit says. On his Facebook page, Curtis posted the same quote: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner in its continuance,” the affidavit says. The letters were postmarked Memphis, Tennessee, which is typically the postmark that letters mailed from northern Mississippi bear, it says. The three letters all contained “the same verbiage, font, style and paper color,” it says. It too contained a “suspicious granular substance” that has yet to be tested, the affidavit says.Ī similar substance found Tuesday in an envelope addressed to Obama tested positive for ricin in a field test, it says. Letters to Obama and Holland also cited the book, it adds.Ī similar letter – bearing no return address and postmarked April 8 – was sent to Holland at her office in Tupelo. A fourth test proved inconclusive.Ĭapitol Police learned from Wicker’s staff that Curtis had sent similar messages to the senator and that Curtis had posted on his blog in 2010 that he was writing a novel about black-market body parts titled “Missing Pieces,” the affidavit says. Three of four field tests conducted on the powder inside the envelope addressed to Wicker tested positive for a protein that later tests determined to be ricin, a lethal toxin, it says. Senate Mail Facility in Landover, Maryland, and the FBI was alerted of it Tuesday, the affidavit says.
The letter addressed to Wicker and bearing no return address was intercepted by the U.S. Is to become a silent partner to its continuance Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, the president and Sadie Holland, a Justice Court judge in Lee County, Mississippi.Īccording to the department, all three letters were typed on yellow paper and read as follows: District Court in Oxford, Mississippi, for a detention hearing.Īn affidavit in support of the criminal complaint cites the mailing of envelopes containing typewritten letters and “a suspicious granular substance” to Sen. The federal complaint further charges him with sending “communications addressed to other persons, and containing a threat to injure the person of others.”Ĭurtis was to appear Friday in U.S. Curtis vehemently denies the allegations against him.”Ī criminal complaint charged Curtis with “knowingly depositing for conveyance in the mail and for delivery from any post office any letter, paper, writing or document containing threats to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States.” In confirming the letters tested positive for ricin, the FBI said it was “not aware of any illness as a result of exposure to these letters.”įurther tests were being conducted, the FBI statement said.Ĭurtis, 45, a resident of Corinth, Mississippi, was charged with sending a threat to the president.Ĭurtis’ attorney, Christi McCoy, told CNN in an e-mail that “Mr. Allan Alexander ordered Paul Kevin Curtis – who appeared in court with attorney Christi McCoy – to remain in custody until a grand jury issues an expected indictment and a preliminary and detention hearing on April 29.
senator and a judge.Įarlier, an Elvis impersonator charged in the case appeared in federal court in Oxford Mississippi.ĭuring a four-minute hearing, Magistrate Judge S. The FBI said Thursday it confirmed the presence of the deadly poison ricin in letters sent to President Barack Obama, a U.S.
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