March 2, 2008 at 06:46:28

Ricin Man Identified-- Home, Warehouse to be Searched

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Tholen contacted hotel management Feb. 22 to inform them about pets in the room, and Las Vegas Humane Society officials took custody of a dog and two cats. The dog, which officials said was ill after going at least a week without food or water, was euthanized.

Von Bergendorff was picked up from the hotel room and hospitalized on February 14. On February 22nd, his cousin, Thomas Tholen, reported that animals in the room needed care and the humane society came, later euthanizing a dog that was near death, from starvation.

CNN Reported yesterday,

... police first were called to the room on Tuesday (Feb 26) after weapons were discovered there. He said officers discovered "general firearms," which have been impounded, and an "anarchist-type textbook" marked at an entry on ricin.

The room was tested for ricin at that time but none was found, Lombardo said. When officers returned Thursday, they found the ricin, but a test of the room showed it was not contaminated.

The AP article reports that Tholen, who we conjecture was staying in the room, to be near his hospitalized cousin, found the ricin vials and reported them to the hotel front desk on thursday, Feb. 28th. That's when the story jumped to national headlines.

Strange that they didn't find the ricin first time around, on Tuesday.

Strange that the Feds can tap phones without warrants but when a WMD is found, they can't, after several days, do a search of a warehouse storage unit or home. Or maybe there's more to this story that yet meets the eye. It is highly unlikely that a case where a man with acute, hospitalization-requiring respiratory distress, whose room is later found to have firearms and a book on anarchy, with the page or ricin bookmarked, would still, four days later, not have seen successful searches of the man's last home and the warehouse where he stored things.

See my previous article: Who Is the Ricin Man? No Terrorism During Bush's Watch... Except for Anthrax and now, Ricin...

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