Update 4/14/16 The Baxter Police Department Thursday identified the postal worker who was arrested for having a hand grenade in his possession as 56-year-old Robert John Menth of Brainerd. Menth is in custody at the Crow Wing County Jail in Brainerd and is awaiting formal charges of felony terroristic threats and misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Menth […]
(September 18, 2014) Boston – A Quincy woman was sentenced yesterday for sending multiple bomb, anthrax and other death threats through the U.S. mail, e-mail and Twitter. Linda Louise Culkin, 55, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr. to 51 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to […]
A federal judge has sentenced a woman to 5 ½ years in prison for mailing letters threatening to bomb seven post offices in the Twin Cities. U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson on Thursday sentenced 43-year-old Christina Anne Reineke on one count of mailing threatening communications. Reineke pleaded guilty in November 2013. In her plea agreement, […]
MINNEAPOLIS – A handful of post office locations in the northwest suburbs were swarmed by authorities Friday morning after they received bomb threat letters. Postal Inspection investigators and local authorities swept Post Office locations in Robbinsdale, Elk River, Anoka, Coon Rapids and Brooklyn Center and cleared all the locations. Postal Inspect JD Long says no […]