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Man arrested in N.C. on charges of threatening Michael Schiavo
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ASHEVILLE, N.C.
A man arrested in Buncombe County Friday was charged with threatening the husband of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of the right-to-die case gripping the country.
Richard Alan Meywes was arrested in Fairview by the FBI and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office, the FBI said in a prepared statement.
Meywes is accused of sending an e-mail putting a $250,000 bounty "on the head of Michael Schiavo" and another $50,000 to eliminate a judge who denied a request to intervene in the Schiavo case, the FBI said. The FBI did not immediately identify the judge.
"The e-mail also made reference to the recent death of a judge in Atlanta and the death of (a) judge's family members in Illinois," the FBI said.
Meywes faces federal charges of murder for hire and transmission of interstate threatening communications.
An FBI spokesman in Charlotte did not immediately return calls Friday evening seeking details of Meywes' arrest. He was arrested without incident, the FBI statement said.
It is not clear whether Meywes lived in Fairview. He was not listed in several published and online telephone directories.
Meywes was being held in the Buncombe County Detention Center, where he was expected to stay until he appears before a federal magistrate, probably on Monday, said Sara Oates a spokeswoman for the FBI in Tampa, Fla.
Oates said Meywes sent the e-mail from North Carolina, but she didn't know whether it was sent from his home. She said the e-mail was sent to news organizations in Florida.
"We take any threat of murder over the Internet seriously," Oates said. "It doesn't matter who they are threatening. We take it seriously."
Michael Schiavo's wife, Terri, suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance believed to have been brought on by an eating disorder. She left no living will.
She's been kept alive but in a persistent vegetative state as her husband and her parents fought in court about whether she should be allowed to die.
Last week, Congress and President Bush entered the battle to force the case to be heard by federal courts. Since then, all courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have refused to intervene to order Terri Schiavo's feeding tubes restored.
Hey, all he has to do is apply the Felos and Greer standard of rewritten law and he will get off scott free!
What's breaking to Greta was news locally earlier today.
Just got an email stating that Cheryl Ford says Terri does 'not' have an iv.
Received message from Florida radio person that Greer "might" order allow an iv pending review.