White-powder letters sent to multiple congressional offices, including Pelosi’s
Nancy Pelosi’s office reported receiving a letter that contained white powder, a development The Guardian said is part of a broader surge of similar mailings to congressional offices that federal investigators are probing. Earlier, the FBI and the U. S. Postal Inspection Service opened investigations into dozens of white-powder letters sent to congressional and election officials in at least 15 states, NBC reported. The Guardian noted that the mailings have targeted more than three dozen congressional and election offices in the weeks before the upcoming midterm elections.
State secretaries of state in Ohio, Louisiana and Oklahoma also said they received envelopes with unidentified white powder, prompting local law-enforcement inquiries, according to NBC. In California, a staff member at Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s Santa Cruz district office opened a similar envelope, called 911 and triggered a federal investigation, as reported by the New York Post; KSBW added that the county building was evacuated and closed. Additionally, a postal inspector intercepted a white-powder envelope addressed to Utah lieutenant governor Deidre Henderson and turned it over to the FBI, KSL News said.
