the home of a former republican for mississippi statehouse is involved in a federal investigation over who sent letters tainted with ricin to president obama, a mississippi senator and a county judge. federal agents in full body hazmat suits searched his home on tuesday. his attorney said it was related to the ricin investigation. in a youtube video posted this week, the former candidate, jay everett dusky, talked about the search. i said go ahead and search the house. agents spent several hours searching a tae kwon do studio he rented until january. not known if anything found. the studio shut down after he was arrested on child molestation charges. his attorney says he is now free on bone. the fbi has not filed any new charges in the ricin investigation and dut.schke is
of questions today on capitol hill and here in boston. we re following new developments in the investigation of the ricin tainted letters sent to president obama and others on capitol hill. the fbi focus has now shifted. they re now searching the site of a formal martial arts studio in tupelo, mississippi, and the home of a former politician who was an instructor there. victor blackwell is following all of these developments for us. victor, this is pretty bizarre. it s bizarre. and we got one other note after those searches, there was one search late yesterday. this is from the attorney for that tae kwon do/politician, that there was a search of his car. the fbi wanted to get into that car and process it. all in the effort to find out who tried to poison president obama. the home of a former republican candidate for the mississippi state house is now involved in a federal investigation into who sent
ricin tainted letters sent to president obama and other officials. the fbi s focus has shifted and now searching the site of a former martial arts studio in tupelo, mississippi, and the home of a former politician who was an instructor there. victor blackwell following the developments for us here live in tupelo. have investigators found anything and have they been able to connect the dot here? no, and there are more and more dots every day. we do know there was one more search yesterday. i spoke with the attorney for that tae kwon do instructor/former politician and she says that the fbi wanted his car. so he took it to them for processing so they could search to find out if there was any connection to who is trying to or tried at least through those ricin tainted letters poison president obama. the home of a former republican candidate for the mississippi state house is now involved in a
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