Federal agents are questioning a Texas man in connection with the mailing ricin-laced letters to Mayor Bloomberg and sending a similar missive to President Obama, the Post has learned.
Agents nabbed the man in New Boston, Texas, after his wife discovered a Tupperware container filled with suspicious material resembling ricin in their refrigerator and called cops, sources said.
She also found Internet searches on ricin production and Internet inquiries into both Obama and Bloomberg, sources said.
The unidentified man is in police custody but has not been arrested.
The Texas man is described as an Army veteran who is a current civilian employee with the Department of Defense. He has connections to Shreveport, La. and to Texas but is not considered a suspect at this time, NBC News reported.
A gun nut who sent Bloomberg a letter laced with ricin mailed an identical message to President Obama that’s being tested for any traces of the poison, officials revealed today.
The man lives roughly 100 miles from the Shreveport, La. mail hub that sent out the letter on May 20. The facility handles correspondence from the surrounging area and parts of Texas and Arkansas.