Ricin-Letter Suspect Curtis Charged With Threats to Obama
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A Mississippi man was charged with threatening to kill or injure President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator by mailing them letters containing ricin, a deadly poison with no known antidote.
Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, of Corinth, made an initial court appearance yesterday with his lawyer, Christi McCoy, in Oxford, Mississippi, where he was ordered held in custody. Curtis, in a black T-shirt, jogging pants and sneakers, told U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Allan Alexander that he understood he could get 15 years in prison if convicted. He didn’t enter a plea and is set to return to court today.