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Expected this investigation to land on their front doorsteps here, but throughout the night we've seen two fbi agents staked out at the house you see behind me. law enforcement officials are questioning a man at this new boston, texas, home, about threatening letters believed to have contained ricin, sent to president obama, new york city michael bloomberg, and a gun control group. >> it kind of hits home a little bit more when it could be someone right down the street. >> reporter: the three suspicious letters were postmarked in shreveport, louisiana. the one addressed to president obama and ...

Against elvis impersonator paul kevin curtis. they thought he was behind the letters. he declared his innocence along, and so this past tuesday they did drop the charges against him. now, just for some background, alex, this all relates to those ricin-laced letters that were addressed to president obama and to a republican of mississippi, senator roger wicker. those letters were intercepted though. they were intercepted at off-site mail facilities. so to be very clear, they never got close to their intended targets, but given the timing of this, this happened just really a few days after the b...

That initially tested positive for ricin, officials are saying that the letter sent to the president is very similar to the one that was sent to senator roger wicker as well. i want to bring in pete williams, our justice correspondent standing by for us in d.c. pete, again, for folks who are just joining us, i think once again it's probably a good idea to stress the fact that there is at this point according to officials no connection between these letters and what happened in boston. is that correct? >> right. what you have here is letters that were sent they believe by the same person. they ...

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