Starting to look that way, says the LasVegas Review-Journal: [1]
The Las Vegas hotel suite where vials of ricin were found Thursday also contained guns and literature about anarchy with information on the deadly toxin, police said Friday.
Nevertheless, Las Vegas police continued to downplay the significance of the ricin discovery, saying they had ruled out terrorism as a motive.
“I want to assure everybody that the Las Vegas Valley is safe,” Las Vegas police Capt. Joseph Lombardo said. “We don’t currently have any terrorist threat at this time or possibility of contamination (due) to ricin.”
The Metropolitan Police Department reported one person has been injured by the biological agent. That man has been in critical condition at Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center for more than two weeks.
Well, the obvious question would be what else the stuff would be used for.
Guy’s name, who found the ricin has been id’d is Thomas Tholen, according to the article. He’s apparently claiming he’s a relative of the guy in the coma, by way of exposure to this stuff.
Michelle [2] says the guy’s name in hospital is Roger Von Bergendorff.
Not sure which was this one’s going, but it strikes me as interesting that I can’t seem to locate much of anything on either name. What’s going on, here?