BREAKING: Ricin In Package Sent to White House

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Letter Sent to Trump Containing Ricin Originated in Canada


A letter addressed to Donald Trump at the White House and containing the deadly poison ricin was mailed from Canada, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

NBC News is reporting that several other letters containing ricin were also intercepted at different facilities. It appears some of the letters were addressed to a Texas detention facility and sheriff’s office. Only one was addressed to a political figure.

Business Insider reports that the FBI has identified a female suspect. The FBI did not elaborate further.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington is taking charge of the investigation with help from New York and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
No links have been found between the poisonous letter and any international terrorist organizations, investigators said. They declined to elaborate on what evidence they had that pointed them to the female suspect.
However, officials have said that the investigation is still in its early stages, and nothing has yet been ruled out.
 

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White House Ricin Attacker Is Illegal Immigrant From Canada, Also Targeted Immigration Officials



The New York Post names the suspect as 53-year-old Pascale Ferrier of Quebec, who was detained last year in Texas after authorities discovered she’d been using a fake driver’s license and had overstayed her visa. She pleaded not guilty to charges that she broke immigration law and the charges were eventually dismissed because it was her “first offense,” according to the CBC. She spent just 20 days in jail before being released.

A report in the New York Times indicates that Ferrier was eventually deported back to Canada.

Ferrier’s most high profile target in the alleged attack was President Donald Trump, but authorities say she also sent ricin-laced envelopes to a number of immigration officials in Hidalgo, Texas, where she was detained in 2019 for the immigration violation, leading authorities to believe, at this point, that the attacks may be retribution for Ferrier’s run-in with immigration officials.

“Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra on Monday afternoon said that ‘envelopes’ of ricin were mailed to him and three others in South Texas associated with the case, but resulted in no injuries. Border Report reached out to Guerra but he did not comment and tweeted this is an ‘active federal investigation,'” ABC News reported late Monday.
 
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