Ricin ingredients found in cabin 


Associated Press


Posted: July 17, 2005


Manitowish Waters - Investigators found ingredients that could be used to
make the deadly poison ricin in a cabin owned by a man accused of having
explosives, the Vilas County sheriff said Sunday.

Sheriff John Niebuhr said investigators found no signs the man intended to
make and use ricin.

The ingredients "were not mixed, no process started, no finished product, no
setup, no lab, nothing," Niebuhr said.

Investigators also found no sign the man was linked to any terrorist group,
Niebuhr said.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as little
as 500 micrograms of ricin, roughly the amount that fits on the head of a
pin, is enough to kill an adult.

The ingredients were found during a two-day search of the Manitowish Waters
cabin owned by Denys Ray Hughes, Niebuhr said. The sheriff refused to
identify the ingredients or reveal what else was found in the cabin, in far
northern Wisconsin.

Vilas County deputies arrested Hughes, 58, last week on suspicion of having
explosives. He was turned over to federal authorities, who charged him with
possessing destructive devices and a silencer. His preliminary hearing is
scheduled Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Madison.

The investigation started after Hughes, an honorably discharged Army
veteran, was stopped July 8 for a traffic violation in Russell County, Kan.
Sheriff's officials found glass containers, firearms, reloading supplies and
books referencing bomb-making in his car and passed the information to the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, authorities said.

 



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