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Judge denies gov’t request to search suspect’s iPhone in ricin case

(ArsTechnica) According to court documents, sometime in the late hours of March 17, 2014, a Georgetown University student showed a fellow student a small plastic bag containing what he claimed was ricin, a known deadly poison. Court denies warrant as gov’t can’t reasonably balance privacy, law enforcement. The alleged ricin cook, Daniel Harry Milzman, then  Read More »

Judge orders ricin suspect released, stays decision 24 hours

(WTOP.com) A judge ordered the 19-year-old accused of making a deadly ricin toxin be released to home confinement for immediate admittance to a psychiatric hospital on Tuesday, then agreed to stay the ruling for 24 hours upon prosecutors’ request. Daniel Milzman, a sophomore at Georgetown University, has been held at a D.C. jail since March  Read More »

Hatboro man charged in attempted ricin murder

(The Intelligencer) A deadly scratch-and-sniff birthday card was in the hand of a Warminster girl when her mother told her to stop and put it back in the mailbox. Police were on the phone with the mother March 7 warning her that a Hatboro man had left a ricin-laced card there. Within minutes, investigators went  Read More »

Ricin Seized Separately in D.C. Dorm Room, Scratch-and-Sniff Card

(Global Security News Wire) Authorities verified the presence of ricin toxin in powder seized from a Georgetown University dormitory earlier this week, the Washington Post reports. FBI officials were interrogating a student “subject” in relation to the lethal material, which posed “no immediate threat” to university residents, campus police chief Jay Gruber said in Wednesday  Read More »

Florida Man Charged in Toxin Sale Appears in New Jersey Court

(NBC6 South Florida) A Florida man who allegedly sold poison to an undercover agent and said it was capable of killing someone within two days made his first court appearance in New Jersey on Tuesday to face charges that could put him in prison for life. Jesse Korff appeared in U.S. District Court shackled and  Read More »

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