{"id":22643,"date":"2016-04-19T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22643"},"modified":"2016-04-19T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T23:10:48","slug":"fbi-blog-chinese-national-wanted-sell-simple-easy-death-poison-pills-100-percent-risk-free-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=22643","title":{"rendered":"FBI Blog:  Chinese National Wanted to Sell &#8220;Simple and Easy Death&#8221; Poison Pills and &#8220;100 Percent Risk-Free Murder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"visual-portal-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"portal-top\">\n<table id=\"portal-columns\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"portal-column-content\">\n<div class=\"content_border_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\"region-content\" class=\"documentContent\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"parent-fieldname-text\" class=\"plain\">\n<table class=\"invisible\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><span class=\"imgthinborder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-inline\" title=\"Shipment Containing Fake Ricin Sent to Cheng Le\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/2016\/april\/man-gets-16-years-for-attempting-to-purchase-ricin\/image\/shipment-containing-fake-ricin-sent-to-cheng-le\" alt=\"Shipment Containing Fake Ricin Sent to Cheng Le\" \/><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"blackgraphtx10\">The shipment sent by the FBI to Cheng Le contained, among other things, a pill bottle holding a single phony ricin tablet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"graphicboxheader\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span class=\"blackgraphtx\">(Published: \u00a004\/19\/16)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It was a very scary scenario: <strong>Chinese national Cheng Le<\/strong>, living in New York City, attempted to order ricin through the so-called dark web.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ricin, of course, is a highly potent and potentially fatal toxin with no known antidote. And the dark web includes a number of extensive, sophisticated, and widely used online criminal marketplaces that allow participants to buy and sell all kinds of illegal and often dangerous items, including drugs, firearms, and hazardous materials, like ricin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What did Le plan to do with the ricin? Nothing good. According to U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, \u201cIn Le\u2019s own words, established at trial, he was looking for \u2018simple and easy death pills\u2019 and ways to commit \u2018100 percent risk-free\u2019 murder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">While on a particular dark web marketplace in early December 2014, Le asked, \u201cThis might sound blunt but do you sell ricin?\u201d Fortunately, the individual at the computer on the other end was not a trafficker in lethal poisons\u2014instead, it was an undercover FBI employee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For the next couple of weeks or so, Le and the undercover employee exchanged more than 20 encrypted messages. Some of Le\u2019s communications included:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf [the ricin\u2019s] good quality, I\u2019ve already had buyers lining up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDoes ricin have an antidote? Last I check there isn\u2019t one, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe client would like to know&#8230;if it is wise to use ricin on someone who is hospitalized&#8230;Injection will leave needle holes on the body which could be found in regular forensic examinations. But hospitalized people already have needles in them so it wouldn\u2019t be suspicious&#8230;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sometime during these exchanges, Le revealed to the undercover employee that he had a specific victim in mind: \u201cSomeone middle-aged. Weight around 200 pounds.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ultimately, Le placed his order, paying with bitcoins, a virtual currency. Bitcoins themselves are not illegal and have known legitimate uses. However, they are also a common form of payment for illegal goods and services on the dark web because of the anonymity they provide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On December 18, 2014, Le directed his contact to send a quantity of ricin to a rented postal box at a Manhattan shipping store (investigators later determined that Le had rented the postal box using the name of an individual whose identity he had stolen).<\/span><\/p>\n<table class=\"invisible aligncenter\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-inline\" title=\"Fake Ricin Pill Glows Under Ultraviolet Light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/2016\/april\/man-gets-16-years-for-attempting-to-purchase-ricin\/image\/fake-ricin-pill-glows-under-ultraviolet-light\" alt=\"Fake Ricin Pill Glows Under Ultraviolet Light\" width=\"250\" height=\"174\" \/><\/span><\/th>\n<th><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"blackgraphtx10\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The phony pill sent to Le glows under ultraviolet light, just as real ricin would.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Bureau prepared a mock shipment exactly as Le had requested\u2014with one small difference: the \u201cricin pill\u201d concealed in a pill bottle and the loose \u201cricin powder\u201d were fake. And on December 23, the sham shipment was delivered to the requested postal box. Le, wearing latex gloves, retrieved the package, opened it, and took it to his apartment. Agents, armed with a search warrant, entered the apartment, collected the evidence, and arrested Le.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Le was tried by a federal jury and convicted in August 2015 of, among other things, attempting to possess a biological toxin for use as a weapon and aggravated identity theft in relation to a terrorism offense. Last month, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison, a term that had been enhanced by the aggravated identity theft charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"blackgraphtx\" style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And as a result of yet another successful joint law enforcement investigation\u2014this one by the FBI, New York Police Department, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service\u2014a criminal who posed a deadly threat to the public is behind bars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"blackgraphtx\">Resources:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"blackgraphtx\">&#8211; <a class=\"internal-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/newyork\/press-releases\/2016\/new-york-man-sentenced-in-manhattan-federal-court-to-16-years-in-prison-for-attempting-to-acquire-deadly-toxin-ricin\" target=\"_self\">Press release<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"portal-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a very scary scenario: Chinese national Cheng Le, living in New York City, attempted to order ricin through the so-called dark web.<br \/>\nRicin, of course, is a highly potent and potentially fatal toxin with no known antidote. 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