'I made a special gift for you to make a decision,' 53-year-old Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier allegedly wrote, referring to the potentially lethal powdery substance inside the letter mailed to President Donald Trump.
A 53-year-old Canadian woman has been charged with threatening President Donald Trump by allegedly mailing a letter laced with the poison ricin along with a message that referred to Trump as an"Ugly Tyrant Clown," and called on him to"remove your application for this election," according to court documents.
The suspect, a resident of Quebec, appeared briefly Tuesday in a federal court in Buffalo, New York, where she was ordered detained pending a Sept. 28 bail hearing. The Secret Service intercepted the letter Sept. 18, at an off-site mail sorting and screening facility, before it reached the White House.
A search of social media posting allegedly associated with Ferrier included threatening language directed at the president, along with identical phrases contained in the Trump letter. The Secret Service's initial testing of the substance in the Trump letter yielded a positive result for ricin. It was confirmed in a later examination at the National Bioforensic Analysis Center in Frederick, Maryland.Ricin, a poison drawn from the husks of castor beans, has surfaced in other plots targeting Trump, President Barack Obama and other officials. According to the Centers for Disease Control, exposure to ricin through inhalation, ingestion or injection can lead to death.
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