I thought he was just cooking...
Posted on 11/22/2008 8:46:52 AM PST by Fizzie
The man who unlawfully possessed the deadly toxin, ricin, and two unregistered firearm silencers in his Las Vegas hotel room in April was sentenced today to three years in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $7,500 fine.
U.S. District Judge Robert C. Jones imposed the sentence against Roger Von Bergendorff, 57, who pleaded guilty in August to one count of possession of a biological toxin and one count of possession of unregistered firearms.
Bergendorff also agreed to forfeit a pistol and two unregistered silencers, said U.S. Attorney Greg Brower of Nevada.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
It’s the Return of the Ricin Guy!
Sounds like a hit-man, or at least would-be hit-man, to me.
I thought we called him ‘Coma Dude’ at the time...lol. Thanks for the ping. Good to know Ricin Guy will be behind bars for awhile.
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Ricin is very easy to make and easy to procure. The Castor Bean is a very beautiful decorative garden plant and it grows to the height in the picture in a single season!
You've probably seen them... people on my street and all over my town have them growing in their yards every year. They must grow from seed each year, but grow very fast.
Inside these spikey looking chestnut type of pods are a few seeds which look like ticks (ricin means "tick" in latin). You only need a few of them and some acetone to make a deadly dose of ricin.
Just the pods in my picture above could brew enough ricin to take out a small platoon. Ricin is not good as a weapon of mass destruction though, it is a better weapon for an assassin.
Like the Ricin Umbrella murder of Georgi Markov in London. It's actually simple to do.
There are so many poisonous plants growing in your yard already and you don't even know it... Yew (Taxus), Laburnum and hemlock are a few that come to mind - but nothing is more deadly than ricin - except perhaps some mycotoxins or aflatoxin... all of which can come from your backyard.
Yes, Penelopesire, we did call him Coma Dude. Little did we know what a great moniker it was. Buried in the article is info that he has been in a coma before.
Back in August, I posted that since Coma Dude has been cooking ricin for 10 years, we should expect that law enforcement has notified hospitals to backtrack on unexplained deaths in Nevada, Utah and California. Hospitals typically don’t check for ricin poisoning unless they have a suspicion of such. I wonder if they ever did.
Bon mots.....I agree with you about ricin being more of an assassin’s tool than a weapon of mass destruction.
Bottom line, Coma Dude gets a light sentence because everyone thinks he’s pathetic. Assassins are pathetic, aren’t they?
Did it ever come out who he was ‘targeting’?
Thanks for the ping..I think. Only three years. Jeez.
So now he’s sentenced, and we still don’t know what he was planning. Apparently neither the prosecutors nor reporters have the least bit of curiosity about this. If ricin didn’t get their antennae going, you’d think the silencers would. Nada. Very odd.
I reread the story twice to find info on a previous coma you alluded to. What am I missing?
My mistake. There is no reference to the 1st coma in this article. I posted the wrong link. Here is the correct link, citing the 1st coma. http://www.lvrj.com/news/34633889.html
Thank you for the folow-up ping.
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