(30) Threatening letters containing white powder received in three U.S. states

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

A person who sent threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to several U.S. embassies and governors' offices two years ago recently sent 30 more such letters to churches, mosques and businesses in Texas, Illinois and Massachusetts, federal officials said Friday.

The most recent batch of envelopes contained a powder shown to be nontoxic and a single typewritten sentence in English that is unclear in meaning but that mentions al-Qaida, FBI Special Agent Mark White said. He declined to elaborate on the wording.

“Nobody understands what they're trying to say,” Mr. White said Friday. “The message itself is unclear. But by taking that extra step and putting that white powdery substance in there, yes it's considered a threat.”

Twenty-five of the letters were sent to addresses in the Dallas area, and the other five were sent to locations in Austin, Lubbock, Chicago and Waltham, Mass., according to the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service. They were postmarked in northern Texas.


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[AndyA]

1. Twenty-five of the letters were sent to addresses in the Dallas area

Probably hoping the former Resident Bush gets one!

[UpInArms]

2. is this the nut from Amarillo, Texas?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/020409dnmetwhitepowder.15a7b3f7.html

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Richard Leon Goyette was furious after losing nearly $65,000 in stock in the collapse of Washington Mutual Bank last fall.

Authorities say it drove the New Mexico man to send out 65 threatening letters — one for each $1,000 he lost — to branches of Chase Bank, which bought the ailing WaMu. All but one letter contained harmless white powder, which he claimed would kill whoever breathed it within 10 days of doing so.

In another letter, he promised carnage on the scale of the Oklahoma City bombing.

Goyette took pains to conceal his crimes, but FBI agents based in Amarillo, working with Internal Revenue Service investigators, managed to use some technological sleight of hand of their own to tie him to the letters.

Their efforts culminated in Monday’s arrest of Goyette, 47, as he was about to board a plane at the Albuquerque, N.M., airport. If convicted, he faces five years in prison for each threatening letter.

The case is not tied to another spate of white powder letters sent from the Dallas area in December to dozens of governors’ offices, including Texas, and to several U.S. embassies.

Even though no one was harmed in either case, federal authorities say catching the culprits in these investigations is important because they drain police and fire department resources and cause “anxiety, disruption and financial cost,” said Robert Casey, special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI, which oversaw the Goyette case.

Authorities were led to Goyette after he sent e-mails, using the address “richgoyet@yahoo .com,” to the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and an attorney handling investor relations for Washington Mutual.

“Since legal means are apparently useless, I will have to consider any viable method applicable to rightfully reclaim my stolen funds,” said a Sept. 29 e-mail, which he signed with his name. He also included his post office box number in Tijeras, N.M., which is about 20 minutes from Albuquerque.

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[fascisthunter]

3. anyone else think this shit is getting "goofey"

white powder being sent out by a bunch of cowardly right wing nutters... be afraid, verrrry afraid. Meanwhile, the powder is probably as harmful as baking soda is.

[JJ]

4. Did someone let Smirk get ahold of postage stamps again?

n/t

[Ian David]

5. It probably said, "Get a Brain! Morans" or "Respec are country." n/t

[msanthrope]

6. "No Amnety" n/t

[kestrel91316]

7. FBI needs to forward the text to us. WE can decipher all manner of Freepish.

[EFerrari]

8. LOL.

"I HAVE A GUB!"