Nov 13, 2008 5:10 pm US/Pacific
Calif. Man Indicted In Nationwide Anthrax Scare
SACRAMENTO (AP) ―
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66-year-old Marc Keyser remains free on a $25.000 bond.
CBS
A federal grand jury has indicted a Sacramento man on 13 charges related to a series of anthrax scares across the country that turned out to be hoaxes.
Marc Keyser was indicted in Sacramento on Thursday on 10 counts of hoax mailings and three counts of mailing threatening communications. The 66-year-old Sacramento man remains free on $25,000 bond.
He was arrested Oct. 29 after several newspapers, businesses and a congressman received threatening packages in the mail.
Prosecutors said they contained a computer disk labeled "Anthrax Shock and Awe Terror" and a packet of a grainy substance with a biohazard symbol and the words "Anthrax sample." In many cases, newspapers reported that the substance turned out to be sugar.
Keyser has yet to enter a plea.
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