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Actress Shannon Rogers Guess with husband Nathan Richardson in a 2011 photo. (
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A small-time Texas actress who told the feds her husband sent ricin letters to Mayor Bloomberg and the president was arrested today for the poisonous plot, law-enforcement sources said.
FBI agents today at noon cuffed Shannon Rogers Guess and took her to a federal courthouse in Texarkana, Texas.
“She had a really blank look on her face,” said a law-enforcement source.
Guess admitted to the plot, the FBI told the Associated Press.
The pregnant woman was then taken to a local hospital for a medical evaluation, the source said.
Both her and her husband, Nathaniel Richardson, had been under 24-hour-surveillance for the past week, according to the source.
Rogers Guess had originally reported her husband Nathaniel Richardson to authorities after she claimed to find suspected ricin in a Tupperware container in their fridge — as well as incriminating searches for Obama and Bloomberg on her home computer.
The 33-year-old Army vet was arrested, and investigators found castor beans — used to make ricin — in Richardson’s car, but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him.
Guess has had parts in “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Walking Dead” and told the Post last week she wanted to divorce her husband – and denied his claims that she was the one behind the letters.
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“He’s racist and hates Obama. Everyone knows that,” she said.
The letters sent to Hizzoner and Obama were identical and included the line that “what’s in this letter is nothing compared to what I’ve got planned for you” according to reports.
The Bloomberg notes and Obama package were both sent from Shreveport, La.
“You’re not going to take my guns. You’ll have to kill me before you take my guns. If you take my guns, you should see what I’m going to do to you,” read the letters, which were typed on a computer, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The author also made a reference to Second Amendment rights, saying that they were “constitutional and God given right and I will exercise that right til I die,” the law-enforcement sources said.
If swallowed or inhaled, a dose of ricin the size of a few grains of salt can be fatal.
Ricin is made from castor beans, which can be orange colored.
Additional reporting by Geoff Earle, Larry Celona, Rebeca Rosenberg and David Seifman