Attorney: Ricin suspect was released on bond

Published April 23, 2013 4:00am ET



TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi man charged with sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others was released from jail Tuesday on bond, while FBI agents returned to another man’s house where they’d previously searched in connection with the case.

Everett Dutschke (DUHST’-kee) said in a phone interview with The Associated Press that the FBI was at his Tupelo home Tuesday for a search related to the mailing of poisoned letters to Obama, U.S. Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi and a state judge. Dutschke said his house was also searched last week.

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