KSLA FBI agents could be seen late Thursday night removing items from the New Boston, Texas, home of Nathan Richardson, 33. The Texas man being grilled in connection with the ricin-laced letters mailed to President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg is married to an actress who played a zombie in “The Walking Dead.”
Nathan Richardson, 33, was unmasked Friday by a local paper as the man in FBI custody — and the husband of flame-haired beauty Shannon Rogers Guess.
Guess, who reportedly is pregnant with their sixth child, called the cops after finding a suspicious substance in her refrigerator, according to the Texarkana Gazette.
CBS News FBI search home in New Boston, Texas, during an investigation into threatening letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which contained the deadly toxin ricin. Richardson, an Army veteran who works at the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, has been described as a person of interest by the FBI but has not been charged with a crime.
But G-men — including a hazardous waste response team — have been searching the sprawling spread the Richardson’s share with their five sons since Thursday.
Nathan D. Richardson via Faceboo Nathan Richardson is in FBI custody after his wife Shannon found a suspicious substance in their refrigerator. “They’ve only lived there about a year,” said neighbor Johnie Ruth Fields. “I don’t really know them, but this is pretty disturbing.”
Guess, 35, a Dallas beauty queen who also has had bit parts on “Vampire Diaries,” was escorted by several G-men to the federal courthouse in Texarkana on Friday. The feds did not say why, but she is believed to be cooperating with investigators.
Shannon Rogers Guess via Faceboo Raven-haired beauty Shannon Rogers Guess called cops after finding something suspicious of her husband’s in the refrigerator. Her husband describes himself on his Facebook page as a “nerd, dork, cracker. May 1980 to present.” He also professed himself to be a fan of Texarkana Ink!, a local tattoo parlor.
“We tat a lot of people here but I don’t remember him,” said owner John Mowrer.
Uncredited/ASSOCIATED PRESS This envelope contained the ricin-tainted letter mailed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Guess, however, has a tribal design on her lower back and butterflies on her stomach, according to her IMDB profile.
In New York, a defiant Mayor Bloomberg said he’s got more to fear from Mother Nature than any gun nut firing off ricin-laced letters.
“I have more danger from lighting than anything else,” Bloomberg said. “And I'll go about my business, and we're certainly going to keep working on getting guns off the streets, out of the hands of criminals and people with mental problems.”
The letters sent to Obama, Bloomberg, and hizzoner’s Washington-based anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns were postmarked May 20 in Shreveport, La., which also handles mail from parts of Texas and Arkansas.
John Minchillo/AP Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the Real Estate Board of New York on Thursday despite ricen-laced threats. They did not have return addresses, but all contained the same sinister message:
“You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns,” the letter said, according to sources. “Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional, God-given right and I will exercise that right til the day I die. What’s in the letter is nothing compared to what we got planned for you.”
The presence of ricin was confirmed in the letters containing an oily pinkish-orange substance that was sent to Bloomberg and his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group.
The feds still haven’t said whether Obama’s letter was also laced with the poison.
Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News A letter scare at the Federal Bldg., 290 Broadway, in Manhattan brought out the Hazmat team Thursday. Meanwhile, the FBI has arrested another alleged ricin-letter sender — a Spokane, Wash. man named Matthew Ryan Buquet — for targeting Obama, the CIA, a local judge, a nearby Air Force Base, and his local post office.
Buquet, 38, a convicted sex offender who did time for molesting a 10-year-old girl, was arrested May 22 and pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a mailing a threatening communication charge.
Investigators said Buquet’s case and the Richardson case are not connected.
A picture of a bearded Buquet appears on his Facebook page above the words, “Just chillin’ like a villain.”
Below that, a commentator wrote on the same day Buquet was arrested, “Apparently the FBI thinks you’re a villain too, buddy.”
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