Elvis impersonator arrested for sending poison laced letter to President Obama
18th April 2013 Photo : PA An Elvis impersonator has been arrested for allegedly sending a letter laced with poison to US President Barack Obama.
Paul Kevin Curtis is due in court in Oxford, Mississippi today (April 18) and could face up to 15 years in jail for posting ricin to the White House as well as to two other government officials.
18th April 2013 Photo : PA An Elvis impersonator has been arrested for allegedly sending a letter laced with poison to US President Barack Obama.
Paul Kevin Curtis is due in court in Oxford, Mississippi today (April 18) and could face up to 15 years in jail for posting ricin to the White House as well as to two other government officials.
The FBI – via the Washington Post - revealed that Curtis allegedly posted three letters on yellow paper apparently laced with ricin to Obama, Senator Roger Wicker and also to a judge in Tupelo, Mississippi – the place of Elvis' birth. The letters concerned a conspiracy theory relating to the trafficking of human body parts.
They read:
"No one wanted to listen to me before. There are still 'Missing Pieces' Maybe I have your attention now Even if that means someone must die... I am KC and I approve this message."
"No one wanted to listen to me before. There are still 'Missing Pieces' Maybe I have your attention now Even if that means someone must die... I am KC and I approve this message."
James Everett Dutschke was sentenced by judge Sharion Aycock after saying he had changed his mind about wanting to withdraw his guilty plea.
He also was sentenced to five years of supervised release and remains in federal custody.
The 42-year-old Mississippi man told Aycock on 13.May that he wanted to withdraw a plea agreement.he made with federal prosecutors in January. He told Aycock federal prosecutors lied when they said he made the poison and about finding his DNA on a dust mask.
Dutschke said he was guilty only of using castor beans to make a fertilizer that couldn't hurt anyone.
He was accused of sending the letters to Obama, Republican US senator Roger Wicker and Mississippi judge Sadie Holland.
Poisoned letters addressed to Obama and Wicker were intercepted before delivery, but one letter reached Holland. She was not harmed.
Withdrawing the plea could have opened Dutschke to a possible life sentence as well as a longer sentence in a state court proceeding, where he had pleaded guilty to fondling charges. The two cases had been linked in the January plea agreement.
Federal prosecutor Chad Lamar said the judge found the outcome to be balanced.
"She found our agreement to be a fair sentence and one that represented the severity of the crime committed," Lamar said after the hearing.
He also was sentenced to five years of supervised release and remains in federal custody.
The 42-year-old Mississippi man told Aycock on 13.May that he wanted to withdraw a plea agreement.he made with federal prosecutors in January. He told Aycock federal prosecutors lied when they said he made the poison and about finding his DNA on a dust mask.
Dutschke said he was guilty only of using castor beans to make a fertilizer that couldn't hurt anyone.
He was accused of sending the letters to Obama, Republican US senator Roger Wicker and Mississippi judge Sadie Holland.
Poisoned letters addressed to Obama and Wicker were intercepted before delivery, but one letter reached Holland. She was not harmed.
Withdrawing the plea could have opened Dutschke to a possible life sentence as well as a longer sentence in a state court proceeding, where he had pleaded guilty to fondling charges. The two cases had been linked in the January plea agreement.
Federal prosecutor Chad Lamar said the judge found the outcome to be balanced.
"She found our agreement to be a fair sentence and one that represented the severity of the crime committed," Lamar said after the hearing.
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