Actress indicted over ricin-laced letters

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Actress indicted over ricin-laced letters

Published: June 28, 2013 8:28 PM
By DANNY ROBBINS. The Associated Press

DALLAS -- A Texas woman was indicted Friday on charges that she sent threatening, ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an attempt to frame her estranged husband.

The federal indictment charges Shannon Richardson, 35, with two counts of mailing a threatening communication and one count of making a threat against the president of the United States.

Richardson, an actress from New Boston, Texas, was arrested June 7. She is accused of sending the threatening letters in May to Obama, Bloomberg and a third man who heads the mayor's gun-control group.

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If convicted, Richardson faces up to five years in prison on each charge.

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[kestrel91316]

1. Well there goes THAT career up in flames.