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LAS VEGAS — As police tried to piece together how a rare, fatal poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a Las Vegas hospital room.Adding to the mystery, police said that firearms and an "anarchist-type textbook" were found in the same room the ricin was found — two days before vials of the substance were discovered Thursday... more ...
Oh great, Las Vegas - one of my kids is going down there next summer for an internship. Better keep away from those transient hotels.About the ricin...hope they get to the bottom of it, doesn't go well in the hands of an anarchist.
LAS VEGAS — FBI agents hope to search a Utah house linked to a man whose hospitalization led to the discovery of deadly ricin in a motel room he had occupied.Roger Von Bergendorff, the focus of the investigation, had lived in the house near Salt Lake City for more than a year before moving to Las Vegas about a year ago, said Tammy Ewell, who lives across the street."He just barely got by in life. He'd just barely make it," Ewell said Saturday of the 57-year-old Von Bergendorff....
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A man who authorities believe was sickened by the deadly toxin ricin was arrested Wednesday on federal charges after he was released from a hospital. Roger Bergendorff, 57, had been hospitalized since Feb. 14. He is charged with possession of a biological toxin and two weapons offenses stemming from materials authorities said were found Feb. 26 and Feb. 28 in his room at an extended-stay motel several blocks off the Las Vegas Strip. "He was released from the hospital and he's in custody," said Agent Joseph Dickey, spokesman for the FBI office in Las Vegas. The three charges carry a possible penalty of 30 years in federal prison and a $750,000 fine. Bergendorff was scheduled appear Wednesday afternoon before a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas. A six-page complaint alleges that Bergendorff obtained castor beans, from which ricin is derived, by mail in June 2002, and made ricin from them while living in the basement of his cousin's house in Riverton, Utah. Bergendorff's cousin, Thomas Tholen, 54, was indicted earlier this month in Salt Lake City for allegedly failing to report that the substance was being illegally produced. Tholen was charged with misprision of felony, which officials said means he had knowledge of a crime but failed to report it. The manufacture or possession of ricin, a biological agent, is prohibited by federal law. The only legal use for the substance is cancer research.
