Posted on 09/16/2002 1:44:39 AM PDT by weegee
A Chicago woman who had an anthrax hoax letter mailed to a Houston woman was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison.
Robin Lynette Butler, 28, pleaded guilty in June to mailing threatening communications.
In November, she mailed an envelope with white powder and a note saying "Anthrax kills b----, to a friend in Virginia. Butler asked the unsuspecting friend to forward the letter to a Houston woman dating her ex-boyfriend, said prosecutor Abe Martinez.
Butler told the friend the envelope contained money for the Houston woman, who would not accept money from her. Butler apologized in court Friday for her actions and to the emergency agencies that responded to the hoax.
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