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How Ricin mailing suspect was caught by FBI...
How Ricin mailing suspect was caught by FBI tracking system that photographs EVERY item of mail
por Josef Berkman (2022-12-20)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Published: 23:24 GMT, 8 June 2013 | Updated: 00:15 GMT, 9 June 2013
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Big Brother isn't tracking only your phone calls and internet habits, the government also keep tabs on snail mail.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation teamed up with the US Postal Service to track down ricin mailing suspect Shannon Guess Richardson using a system that snaps pictures of ‘every mail piece that is processed,' according to a complaint.
Filed Friday in Texas, the complaint details how federal investigators narrowed down the origin of the letters by reviewing the pieces of mail scanned before and after the ricin containing letters sent to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control lobby sponsored by the mayor.
Say cheese: A picture of the ricin-laced letter addressed to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Postmarked in Shreveport, La, the letters were processed at a regional distribution facility in the city, according to the complaint.
RELATED ARTICLESThough in Louisiana, the plant also processes mail for parts of Arkansas and Texas, where Richardson resides, the complaint explains.
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By referencing two separate batches of mail processed by the postal service's Automated Facer Canceller System (ACFS) on May 20, as well as the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, which takes the actual pictures of the mail, agents determined the mail came from the area around New Boston, Texas, the complaint states.
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The first of the three letters, addressed to mayor Bloomberg, was opened four days later at a mail center in Lower Manhattan. The second was opened two days later in Washington, D.C., by a staffer at The Raben Group, the Bloomberg-sponsored gun control lobbying firm.
The third was intercepted on May 30 before reaching President Obama, having been opened at the White House mail facility, the complaint detailed.
Richardson met in Shreveport with investigators later that day, accused her husband of sending the letters and turned over a book of stamps, which investigators determined on June 3 to be the same book of stamps the ricin letters postage came from, said the complaint posted on the .
Treasure hunt: Authorities searching Shanoon Richardson's New Boston, TX home on a quest cracked softwares for sale} evidence linking her to ricin mailings
Guilty: Shannon Richardson was placed in custody after confessing to mailing the ricin-laced letters
Further investigation led to warrant-less searches of the couple's New Boston home, turning up castor beans - which contain the toxic ricin poison, saved letters matching those mailed and other physical evidence, according to the report.
The nail in Richardson's accusatory coffin was that her husband was found to have been working a 10-hour shift starting 6:30am, which was corroborated by coworkers, the day the letters were postmarked, the complaint states.
So happy together: A picture of the happy couple before Shannon Richardson tried to make her hubby take the fall
Her alibi in shambles, Richardson confessed to trying to set her husband up, she mailed the letters - a photo finish to a lie and, perhaps, her marriage.