Elvis Impersonator Cleared of All Ricin Charges

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Who’d want to frame Elvis?

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.

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34 comments
1 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:29:47pm

Who’d want to frame an Elvis impersonator? Elvis, of course. He didn’t die. He just went home. And got pissed that someone was doing such a poor job of being… well… him.

2 EdDantes  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:30:31pm

I knew it. No true Elvis impersonator would do such a thing.

3 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:30:36pm

Now this is a classy conspiracy. Ricin, Elvis impersonators, plot twists.

4 HappyWarrior  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:31:18pm

See why lynching is a bad idea now Ted Nugent? And yes I know he called for lynching Tsaranaev not Curtis but still.

5 EdDantes  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:31:54pm

re: #3 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Now this is a classy conspiracy. Ricin, Elvis impersonators, plot twists.

It’s like a Dan Brown novel.

6 Buck  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:32:10pm

re: #3 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Now this is a classy conspiracy. Ricin, Elvis impersonators, plot twists.

Almost a cliche.

7 dragonath  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:32:31pm

ELVIS IS BACK ON TOUR

8 Iwouldprefernotto  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:32:37pm

No Jailhouse Rock jokes?

9 Mattand  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:32:47pm

re: #5 EdDantes

It’s like a Dan Brown novel.

Except that it’s well-written.

HI-YOOOOOOOOO!

10 Charles Johnson  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:33:16pm

Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to rent Bubba Ho-Tep. (Based on one of Joe Lansdale’s best stories.)

11 thedopefishlives  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:33:22pm

re: #9 Mattand

Except that it’s well-written.

HI-YOOOOOOOOO!

BA-ZING!

12 dragonath  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:34:07pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to rent Bubba Ho-Tep. (Based on one of Joe Lansdale’s best stories.)

If you do, make sure you listen to the Bruce Campbell-as-Elvis commentary track.

13 Mattand  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:35:01pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to rent Bubba Ho-Tep. (Based on one of Joe Lansdale’s best stories.)

Good flick. Saw it in Philly when Coscarelli was schlepping it around the US himself.

14 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:35:39pm

re: #3 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Now this is a classy conspiracy. Ricin, Elvis impersonators, plot twists.

Refrigerators full of body parts, mexicans being given all the overtime shifts …

So far this is better than the first two seasons of LOST.

15 thedopefishlives  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:36:09pm

re: #14 goddamnedfrank

Refrigerators full of body parts, mexicans being given all the overtime shifts …

So far this is better than the first two seasons of LOST.

Wow, you guys are on fire tonight.

16 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:39:07pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to rent Bubba Ho-Tep. (Based on one of Joe Lansdale’s best stories.)

The suffix -hotep means “is pleased.”

Bubbahotep: Bubba is pleased.

17 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:42:35pm

re: #8 Iwouldprefernotto

It’s not like he shot a guy in Reno, just to watch him die. But he did get picked up and sent packing to the Starkville City jail for picking daisies and being a flower child. /

18 Decatur Deb  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:43:36pm

re: #3 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Now this is a classy conspiracy. Ricin, Elvis impersonators, plot twists.

Dueling Mensans.

19 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:44:32pm

Chicago area teen arrested after posting on a FBI honey-trap site for jihadis.

It had the trappings of an actual extremist website: Photos of gun-toting fighters and a flowery exhortation to, “Come and join your lion brothers … fighting under the true banner of Islam.”

Except, it wasn’t what it seemed.

It was a sham site constructed and controlled by the FBI with the aim of snaring terrorist wannabes in the virtual world before they could carry out real-world harm.

Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, was arrested last week on a terrorism charge stemming from the sting operation. He made a brief court appearance Tuesday in federal court in Chicago.

The American-born man from Aurora is accused of seeking to join al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusrah, which is fighting the Syrian Bashar Assad regime in a bloody civil war.

20 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:46:05pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

Dueling Mensans.

Spitball me some titles. I’ve got :

Outsmarting Paul

The Ricin and the Mensan

Elvis Has Left the Building, and the Building Was a Jail and He’s Leaving Because It Turns Out He Was Framed (And He’s Not Really Elvis (Or Is He?)).

21 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:52:33pm

o.t. i’m demonstrating the truth of the old pgrmr proverb, “premature optimization is the root of all eeebils”

got the stopwatch out and timed all the writes. wasn’t what we thought it was at all

22 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:56:36pm

re: #20 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Spitball me some titles.

Jailhouse Rock

Return to Sender

23 Decatur Deb  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 6:57:16pm

re: #22 goddamnedfrank

Jailhouse Rock

Return to Sender

Ring of Derp

24 DelusionDeluge  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:00:31pm

But he Democrat. Me no get how he be innocent.

25 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:01:33pm

re: #20 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Ricin blue shoes.
All Shook Up
A Little Less Conversation

26 stabby  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:05:34pm

So either:
1) he’s innocent and the reason his letters were almost signed is that he was being framed.
or
2) The reason his letters were basically signed is that he was SO SURE that he left no evidence that he didn’t mind being arrested and charged
or
3) he’s both stupid and very very careful with the actual poison/real evidence…
or
4) someone else made the letters for him, with his approval

27 ProBosniaLiberal  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:07:45pm

Looks like I missed out on a troll extravaganza earlier.

I’ve been having a really shitty week thus far.

28 Decatur Deb  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:14:08pm

re: #19 lawhawk

Chicago area teen arrested after posting on a FBI honey-trap site for jihadis.

Better he had stuck to porn.

29 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:18:24pm

re: #27 ProBosniaLiberal

Looks like I missed out on a troll extravaganza earlier.

I’ve been having a really shitty week thus far.

Eh? Guess I missed it too.

30 klys  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:20:33pm

re: #27 ProBosniaLiberal

Looks like I missed out on a troll extravaganza earlier.

I’ve been having a really shitty week thus far.

Do yourself a favor: skip the trolls, try to take care of yourself instead, whether it’s video games or reading a good book, or whatever.

31 I Am Kreniigh!  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:26:37pm

He learned too late the downside of having an easily copied catchphrase.

“This is Kreniigh saying over and out!”

32 compound_Idaho  Tue, Apr 23, 2013 7:33:17pm

re: #19 lawhawk

But isn’t the US sending millions in aid to the Syrian rebels?

33 Aligarr  Wed, Apr 24, 2013 4:12:16am

Elvis says ” I don’t even eat rice ” . What a guy ! I love America .

34 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 24, 2013 7:58:46am

re: #26 stabby

So either:
1) he’s innocent and the reason his letters were almost signed is that he was being framed.
or
2) The reason his letters were basically signed is that he was SO SURE that he left no evidence that he didn’t mind being arrested and charged
or
3) he’s both stupid and very very careful with the actual poison/real evidence…
or
4) someone else made the letters for him, with his approval

I wonder if these two Mensa geniuses are in it together, just for TEH LULZ.


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