Woman Charged With Sending Ricin Letter to Trump to Remain in US Custody

Woman Charged With Sending Ricin Letter to Trump to Remain in US Custody
Pascale Ferrier appears in a jail booking photograph taken after her arrest by the Mission Police Department in Mission, Texas, U.S., on March 13, 2019. (Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office/Handout via Reuters)
Reuters
9/28/2020
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9/28/2020

A U.S. federal judge on Monday ordered the continued detainment of a Candian-French woman arrested earlier this month on suspicion of mailing ricin-filled letters to President Donald Trump and six people in Texas.

H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr., a magistrate judge in Buffalo, New York, said that Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 53, was a flight risk and potential risk to the community and should be transferred to Washington, D.C. to face a grand jury indictment there.

By Nathan Layne