Elvis Impersonator Cleared of All Ricin Charges
Federal authorities dropped charges against Paul Kevin Curtis, who was arrested last week when he was suspected of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and a Mississippi judge.
The decision comes a day after authorities failed to find evidence of the poison at his house. Earlier on Tuesday officials canceled the latest hearing in Curtis’s case.
Federal officials arrested Curtis, of Corinth, Miss., last Wednesday, fewer than 48 hours after the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police launched a joint investigation into the ricin-laced letters postmarked from Memphis, Tenn.
Curtis’s lawyers hold that the 45-year-old man is possibly being framed for using mail to threaten the president, a charge that could have landed him 15 years in jail if convicted.
