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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0NEW YORK<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A federal judge sentenced Cheng Le<\/strong>, 22, of Manhattan, New York to 16 years in prison for trying to buy the poison ricin to use as a lethal weapon, according to federal officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Following a four-day jury trial, Le also was convicted on Aug. 25. for postal fraud, identity theft in relation to a terrorism offense.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Castor Beans used to make ricin, a deadly poison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Le was seeking a \u2018risk-free\u2019 way to murder an individual, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThrough the Dark Web, Cheng Le attempted to acquire a lethal toxin,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cIn Le\u2019s own words, established at trial, he was looking for \u2018simple and easy death pills\u2019 and ways to commit \u2018100% risk-free\u2019 murder.\u00a0 Thanks to the FBI, the NYPD and the Postal Inspection Service, Le\u2019s deadly plot was thwarted and he has been incapacitated by a lengthy term in federal prison.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the allegations in court documents, this is the evidence:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ricin is a highly potent and fatal toxin with no known antidote.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The dark web is a colloquial name for a number of “extensive, sophisticated and widely used online criminal marketplaces,” that allow\u00a0people\u00a0to buy and sell illegal items, including ricin. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In early December 2014, Le contacted a FBI online covert employee on a particular dark web marketplace using an encrypted messaging service.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The covert employee had taken over the dark web identity from another individual who had a reputation for selling lethal poisons.\u00a0 After making contact with the covert employee, Le inquired, \u201cthis might sound blunt but do you sell ricin?\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following that initial contact, Le exchanged a series of messages with the covert employee concerning his efforts to purchase ricin.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

During these messages, Le confirmed his understanding of the lethal nature of ricin, revealed his intent to resell the ricin to at least one secondary buyer, proposed that the covert employee conceal the ricin in a single pill in an otherwise ordinary bottle of pills and indicated a desire to obtain more ricin in the future.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Le\u2019s messages to the covert employee included the following:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  • \u00a0\u201cIf [the ricin\u2019s] good quality, I\u2019ve already had buyers lining up.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u201cDoes ricin have antidote? Last I check there isn\u2019t one, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u201cInjection can be difficult to pull off. Ricin doesn\u2019t work immediately. You wouldn\u2019t expect the target to not fight back after being jabbed.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u201cThe client would like to know . . . if it is wise to use ricin on someone who is hospitalized. . . .\u00a0 Injection will leave needle holes on the body which could be found in regular forensic examination. But hospitalized people already have needles in them so it wouldn\u2019t be suspicious. Thing is, would ricin make the death look like someone succumbed to the injuries after an accident and didn\u2019t make it through? In that case then, a little anethestical [sic] gas in the target\u2019s car, get him drowsy when driving, get into an accident, and then kill him in the hospital bed.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u201cI probably told you this before, about mixing one and only one toxic pill into a bottle of normal pills. They all look identical. And as the target takes the medicine every day, sooner or later he\u2019d ingest that poisonous pill and die. Even if there is a murder investigation, they won\u2019t find any more toxin. 100% Risk Free.\u201d\u201cIf you can make them into simple and easy death pills, they\u2019d become bestsellers.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u201cI\u2019ll be trying out new methods in the future. After all, it is death itself we\u2019re selling here, and the more risk-free, the more efficient we can make it, the better.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  • \u00a0\u201cAlso, besides that one bottle of pills with one poisonous pill in there, can you send some extra loose powder\/liquid ricin? I\u2019d like to test something.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Moreover, during these exchanges, Le revealed to the covert employee that he had a specific victim in mind: \u201csomeone middle-aged.\u00a0 Weight around 200 lbs.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    On Dec. 18, 2014, Le directed the covert employee to send a quantity of ricin addressed to the name of an individual whose stolen identity Le had assumed at a particular postal box in Manhattan.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    On Dec. 22, 2014, the FBI prepared a mock shipment of ricin that was consistent with Le\u2019s request. The sham shipment included a fake ricin tablet concealed in a pill bottle, and a quantity of loose fake ricin powder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    The next day, the sham shipment was delivered to the postal box.\u00a0 Le, wearing latex gloves, retrieved the sham shipment, opened it and took the contents to his apartment.<\/span><\/p>\n

    When FBI agents entered Le\u2019s apartment to arrest him and search the apartment pursuant to a search warrant, they saw the pill bottle open in his apartment.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

    The agents also recovered from Le\u2019s apartment an envelope containing castor seeds from which Ricin can be produced. \u00a0Le\u2019s computer was open to the online account that he had used to communicate with the covert employee and to Le\u2019s personal email account.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Le was arrested in New York on Dec. 23, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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