CYANIDE SCARE LEADS TO ARREST.Byline: Eric Moses Daily News Staff Writer A Carpinteria woman was arrested Sunday on suspicion of trying to mail deadly sodium cyanide sodium cyanide n. A poisonous white crystalline compound, NaCN, used in extracting gold and silver from ores and in dye manufacture. Noun 1. disguised as a nutritional supplement to people across Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and the nation. Kathryn Schoonover, 50, was arrested at a Marina del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
adj. 1. Composed of or similar to powder. 2. Dusted or covered with or as if with powder. 3. Easily made into powder; friable. Adj. 1. poison into white business envelopes, Deputy Michael Irving said. She faces attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. charges. ``We would have had mass murder,'' Sheriff Sherman Block said at a news conference late Sunday at Sheriff's headquarters in Monterey Park. Block said some of the directions instructed people to take the sample with juice in the morning. ``Had they done that, and had any of these people consumed the sodium cyanide, it would have been a fatal dose,'' he said. Most of the addresses were residences in the Southland, but some were in other states, Deputy Bob Killean said. Beyond that, sheriff's investigators said they did not know how widespread Schoonover's operation was, and they were questioning her at the Lennox sheriff's station to find out if she had mailed other packets containing sodium cyanide from other post offices. No one was hurt at the post office in the 4700 block of Admiralty Way, but the building and a nearby shopping center were evacuated. Two county hazardous materials teams were sent to the post office, and roads into the area were shut down. The roads were reopened about 6 p.m., and customers and employees were being allowed back into the Waterside Shopping Center, Wealer said. Hazmat crews remained at the post office as of 8:20 p.m., assisting in cleaning up an unknown amount of cyanide inside the facility, said dispatch supervisor Jim Crawford. ``We're still trying to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose the substance,'' Crawford said. It can be deadly if inhaled or swallowed. Investigators from the Sheriff's Department, FBI and U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. were at the scene, said sheriff's Sgt. David Halm. Schoonover reportedly placed about one teaspoon of the deadly powder each in bags and attached one to a brochure for mailing. City News Service contributed to this story. |
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