JUST IN: A letter addressed to President Trump tested positive for the deadly poison ricin earlier this week at an off-site facility that screens mail addressed to the White House, law enforcement officials say.
One official said the letter tested positive to ricin in both a field test and a subsequent laboratory test.
A second official said the FBI, Secret Service and the Postal Inspection Service are trying to determine where the letter came from. It’s unclear when the letter was intercepted. Other letters that have also tested positive for ricin were discovered in different facilities, an official said. While it is unclear how many additional poisoned letters were found, most of them seem to be addressed to prisons. Only one was apparently addressed to a political figure, the official said.Ricin is highly toxic that could cause nausea, vomiting, and internal bleeding of the stomach and intestines.
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