Posted on 01/28/2011 11:54:36 AM PST by EBH
Federal investigators said this afternoon that the material taken from a Coventry Township home is ricin -- a toxin that is "derived from the caster bean and can be deadly if ingested, inhaled or injected."
The FBI, responding to a call from Coventry Township and Summit County officials, had seized a small amount of material from home on South Main Street late Tuesday afternoon. The substance was flown to a federal lab in Maryland for analysis and the results announced today.
The substance was found by the new owner of the home, which had recently been foreclosed on. Federal agents called in specially trained FBI hazardous materials teams from Pittsburgh and Quantico, Va., FBI spokesman Scott Wilson said.
The FBI, Coventry Township Fire Department and Summit County Sheriff's Office were searching the home again today for any sign of further hazardous materials, according to a bureau news release.
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I thought Ricin had to be manufactured or processed from castor beans. There is no other use for it than to kill. However it got in that house, sounds like terrorism to me—even if only to kill the next homeowner.
Do ‘caster beans’ help make vegetarians easier to roll from one place to anoother?
Most likely aimed at the forecloser, I would think.
Yes, so what triggered the new owner and the locals to call the FBI in? It’s not like forclosure home inspectors are hip to ricin, sarin gas, and other such things.
Ricin is found naturally in castor beans. While it can be extracted and concentrated, it is not necesasary for it to be ‘manufactured’ or synthesized from the beans.
Since the article doesn’t name the person who previously occupied the house it’s hard to tell whether it was an Ahmed, a Mohammed, a Saleem, or combination of all three.
Oh let me guess. Old prayer rugs, vials,assorted jihadi literature would be my guess.
No name of the home owner(s).
OK
I grow these plants every year. They are beautiful. I have seen a lot of them in Texas too.
Pinging....FYI!!!
Debora Green From Wikipedia
Dr. Debora Green (born February 28, 1951) was a former oncologist living in Prairie Village, Kansas, married to Michael Farrar, a cardiologist. After previously trying to poison Michael using ricin, on October 24, 1995 she murdered two of her children, Kelly and Tim Farrar, ages 6 and 13, by setting fire to the family house at 7517 Canterbury Court. The middle child (of the three children) survived.
In 1996 she pleaded no contest before the trial and was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 40 years before eligibility for parole.
Debora Green was the subject of Ann Rule's 1997 book Bitter Harvest.
I lived about a quarter mile from their home and remember the high winds the night of the fire.
Why does it has to be terrorism? Doesn’t everyone keep a little ricin on a basement shelf, next to the pesticides?
There has been an update:
Federal agents this afternoon arrested Jeffrey B. Levenderis, 54, of Coventry Township on one count of unlawful possession of a biological agent, ricin, an FBI spokesman said.
You owe me an new keyboard.....
As someone who has cleaned up any and all manner of ‘ick’ left by former owners/renters (during our moves) how would one know what they were encountering??? Other than the container clearly marked?
Not a lot of those types in suburban Akron however.
“We found a few baggies of material in a closed coffee can in the refrigerator, but they remained contained the entire time and we sent them to the lab to be tested.”
Yeah I think I’d be a little leery myself now a days.
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