A Mississippi man accused of mailing
letters with suspected ricin to President Obama believed he had
uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market and
sometimes performed as an Elvis Presley impersonator using the stage name KC.
Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was arrested on Wednesday at 5:15pm at his
apartment in Corinth, Mississippi near the Tennessee state line about 100 miles east
of Memphis, FBI officials announced yesterday.
He
is accused of sending ricin-laced letters this week to the President
and to Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi, that arrived
just one day after the deadly bombings in Boston.
Curtis posted hordes of pictures on his Myspace page showing him from the 1980s and 90s
Curtis had previously sent letters to Sen.
Wicker and officials from his office alerted
authorities about the frequency of his correspondence when the suspicious letter was found.
The
suspect was originally identified by federal sources as Kenneth Curtis
of Tupelo, Miss, according to local media reports. It is not known if
Curtis has used Kenneth as an alias.
Curtis is 'believed to be responsible
for the mailings of the three letters which contained a granular substance that
preliminarily tested positive for ricin,' the FBI said in a statement.
Investigators with the Secret Service
and the FBI are using the Lee County Sheriff’s Department, in Tupelo,
as a staging area for their investigation, according to The
Clarion-Ledger.
It is not clear where the suspect is being held.
Last night Ricky Curtis, who said he was Kevin
Curtis' cousin, said the family was shocked by the news of the arrest.
He described his cousin as a 'super entertainer' who impersonated Elvis
and numerous other singers.
'We're all in shock. I don't think
anybody had a clue that this kind of stuff was weighing on his mind,'
Ricky Curtis said in a telephone interview.
Ricky Curtis said his cousin had
written about problems he had with a cleaning business and that he felt
the government had not treated him well, but he said nobody in the
family would have expected this. He said the writings were titled
Missing Pieces.
A Facebook account entitled Kevin
Curtis Live (KC), which is believed to be that of the suspect, contains
rants about a body parts conspiracy.
On Tuesday photographs of a pistol were uploaded
onto the Kevin Curtis Live (KC) Facebook page, with the caption 'say
hello to my little friend'
One, posted on Tuesday, said: 'I'm on
the hidden front lines of a secret war. A war that is making Billions
of dollars for corrupt mafia related organizations and people. (bone,
tissue, organ, body parts harvesting black market) when we lay our loved
ones to rest.
'My
mother wants me to SHUT UP. My brothers fear me. My sister hates me. My
cousins have hostility towards me (they work in healthcare) I have lost
most of my friends. I have spent more than $130,000.00 on legal fees in
13.5 yrs.
'They burned down
my home, killed my dogs, my cat, my rabbit, blew up my 1966 Plymouth
Valent. They destroyed my marriage, they distracted my career, they
stalked, they trolled, they came in to my home, took my computers, had
me arrested 22 times and guess what? I am still a thorn in their corrupt
a****!'
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