Post by andie on Nov 25, 2017 7:09:45 GMT
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/24/barack-obama-explosive-package-cat-hairs
Would-be Obama assassin identified by cat hairs, authorities say
Fur on an explosive package was matched to cats owned by Julia Poff, accused of attempted postal attacks on former president and Texas governor
"The person behind a plot to harm and possibly kill Barack Obama was identified, authorities said, when tiny cat hairs found on an explosive package were matched to cats owned by a 46-year-old Texas woman.
Legal documents filed in a Houston court this week detail the case against Julia Poff, who is accused of mailing homemade packages to the then president and to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, in October 2016.
Neither device detonated and the package intended for Obama was intercepted by the secret service. The court papers say, however, that Abbott may only have escaped “severe burns and death” because “he did not open [the package] as intended”.
Poff, who is also alleged to have sent a third package to the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, was charged with six counts, including mailing injurious articles and transporting explosives with the intent to kill and injure.
She is also charged with more than $5,000 of food stamp fraud and false bankruptcy declaration.
According to the court documents, FBI investigators traced the packages to Poff through their components, which included a box of Pall Mall cigarettes purchased at a Flying J Truck Stop near her home in Brookshire, Texas, 30 miles west of Houston.".
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Would-be Obama assassin identified by cat hairs, authorities say
Fur on an explosive package was matched to cats owned by Julia Poff, accused of attempted postal attacks on former president and Texas governor
"The person behind a plot to harm and possibly kill Barack Obama was identified, authorities said, when tiny cat hairs found on an explosive package were matched to cats owned by a 46-year-old Texas woman.
Legal documents filed in a Houston court this week detail the case against Julia Poff, who is accused of mailing homemade packages to the then president and to the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, in October 2016.
Neither device detonated and the package intended for Obama was intercepted by the secret service. The court papers say, however, that Abbott may only have escaped “severe burns and death” because “he did not open [the package] as intended”.
Poff, who is also alleged to have sent a third package to the commissioner of the Social Security Administration, was charged with six counts, including mailing injurious articles and transporting explosives with the intent to kill and injure.
She is also charged with more than $5,000 of food stamp fraud and false bankruptcy declaration.
According to the court documents, FBI investigators traced the packages to Poff through their components, which included a box of Pall Mall cigarettes purchased at a Flying J Truck Stop near her home in Brookshire, Texas, 30 miles west of Houston.".
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