his name surfaced on monday, at a hearing for that former suspect paul kevin curtis. curtis was initially arrest and charged in connection to this case. he was accused of sending letters containing ricin to several government officials, including president obama. and he was later released and his name was cleared. the charges were dropped. and that happened on tuesday. as soon as that happened, the attention, the focus seemed to turn to this other suspect, to dutschke. we know agents have searched his martial arts studio and his home. and his attorney, however, has maintained that her client has had nothing to do with these letters. we are still working to get more information on what is going on and get some more details. and we also, today, have reached out to dutschke s attorney and
a seat in the mississippi house in 2007. we caught up with steve earlier today and here s what he had to say about the arrest. this could have been devastating. very devastating. i mean, mom could have died. had this taken the worst-case scenario and that would have been tragic, of course. thank goodness she s fine. we just want to move on. reporter: move on and also get justice for his mother. that s what holland told us today, don. so listen. does the fbi think that dutschke personally packed envelopes with ricin or played some other role, alina? reporter: those are details we re hoping to learn as the details become public what we know that the charges in this case are very telling. we know that dutschke charged with developing, retaining and
he was charged with child molestation earlier this year. now, we don t know exactly why the fbi went looking for him. what we do know is that his name came up in a hearing for the initial suspect of this case. that man is paul kevin curtis. he told he said in that hearing on monday that he had been framed and he mentioned dutschke as a possible suspect. a day after that hearing, all the charges filed against curtis were dismissed. curtis s name cleared and he was released from jail. and then, something interesting happened. authorities seemed to focus their attention, turned attention towards dutschke. we know of several searches here in tupelo, one at the former location for the martial arts studio and one at his house. one of the ricin letters was sent to lee county judge holland. her son ran against dutschke for
throughout the week she had been telling us her client had nothing to do with the ricin letters. today when we reached out after finding out about the arrests, she told us it is her understanding that dutschke s arrest has been confirmed and she had no further comment. carol. i talked to tom fuentes, a former fbi guy, and he said that authorities in the first instance, and i am talking about the first suspect they arrested, sort of rushed to arrest someone. what makes them so sure this time they have the right person? that s a very good question. that s something that people are going to be asking, and looking to find the answer to over the course of the coming days. what we do know about dutschke, is he is expected to be in court monday. hopefully we ll find out more and what it is that led investigators to feel confident enough to make this arrest here.
we have been talking to neighbors and friends who knew him for a while and talked to dennis car lock and known him fr a few years and here s what he said about the arrest. i m glad they got him. like i told bunch of them before, i don t how they got him but got him out of this neighborhood. reporter: we have also learned that the lee county sheriff s office is also potentially going to try to seek state charges filed against dutschke. carol? . now the latest on the boston bombing investigation. two foreign exchange students of kazzic stans who were friends with tsarnaev are held. susan candiotti is live where tsarnaev is being held at a prison medical center. why are the students being held? reporter: they re being held,