Texas actress held over ricin letter 'gun threat'

An actress from Texas has been arrested over ricin-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the mayor's gun control group, officials said. Shannon Richardson, 35, had accused her husband of sending the letters, but authorities suspect she sent them. Agents in protective suits searched her home in New Boston on Wednesday. She has had small roles in The Vampire Diaries and The Walking Dead, according to her CV on the film database IMDB. Charges have not yet been filed against the pregnant mother of five, who contacted the FBI on 30 May to try to implicate her husband. The letter to Mayor Bloomberg referenced his support of stricter gun control, reportedly containing a threat to "shoot in the face" anyone who came for the sender's guns. It was addressed to the New York mayor's office, but was intercepted at a postal sorting facility. Another letter that tested positive for ricin was sent to the director of the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, founded by Mayor Bloomberg, and was opened. A lawyer for the suspect's husband, Nathaniel Richardson, said the couple are getting divorced and this may have been an attempt to frame him. Three letters were sent from Shreveport, Louisiana, on 20 May, without a return address. In a separate case, a Mississippi man was charged earlier this month with sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama, a judge and a Mississippi senator. Another man has been arrested in Washington state in connection with letters sent to a judge, a local air force base, a post office and the president