Feds: 30 suspicious letters with nontoxic white powder sent to addresses in Texas, Ill., Mass.
By APFriday, August 13, 2010
Feds: 30 letters with white powder sent this month
DALLAS — Federal investigators say a person or group has sent 30 threatening letters including nontoxic white powder to churches, mosques and businesses in Texas, Massachusetts and Illinois this month.
FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service officials said Friday that 25 of the letters have been sent to addresses in the Dallas area. The other five were sent to locations in Austin, Lubbock, Chicago and Waltham, Mass.
FBI Special Agent Mark White says the envelopes were received Aug. 5 or later and are postmarked from northern Texas. Each contains one line of typewritten English that is unclear but that mentions al-Qaida.
Investigators believe a single person or group sent the letters.
(This version corrects that the letters were received Aug. 5 or later, not that they were postmarked then.)
