Photo from source, AP
A couple of days ago, I reported on the breaking news of a discovery of ricin--a deadly poison--in Las Vegas. Apparently, several vials of the nasty stuff were found in an "extended stay" motel by friends or relatives of the man who put it there, after he was found unconscious by the maid. Excuse me if that scenario is later contradicted, accounts are kind of fuzzy.
Anyway, I couldn't help but notice that a deadly poison--a few grains of which can apparently kill a person--made it into a major metropolitan city. A city that is one of the largest tourist areas in the United States. This extended stay hotel is spitting distance from the Rio and Palms hotels--among the most popular off-strip sites in Las Vegas. And it wasn't wire-tapping or data mining that led to its discovery--it was blind luck.
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Suburban Utah Home Searched for Ricin
RIVERTON, Utah (AP) — FBI agents wearing protective suits searched Sunday for the deadly poison ricin at a suburban home where a man possibly sickened by the deadly poison had once lived.
Authorities believed they had found all of the ricin in several vials recovered Thursday from a Las Vegas motel where Roger Von Bergendorff had been staying, but they wanted to also check the home in Riverton, outside Salt Lake City. . .
Authorities believed they had found all of the ricin in several vials recovered Thursday from a Las Vegas motel where Roger Von Bergendorff had been staying, but they wanted to also check the home in Riverton, outside Salt Lake City. . .
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