NEWS: White Powder Scare at Florida Govt Offices

Man Charged With Sending Bomb Threats To Broward County Schools
FORT LAUDERDALE -- A Tennessee man was charged Friday with mailing bomb threats to Broward County schools, and investigators said he told of sending 25 envelopes filled with a white powder to mayors throughout the county.

The powder turned out to be white flour.

Dane Ray Swindell, 46, of Memphis, was charged with mailing a false threat to damage or destroy a building by means of an explosive, according to the FBI.

He was not charged with sending the powder, but the investigation was continuing and additional charges were possible, said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela. She did not know whether Swindell had an attorney.

He was being held Friday in Memphis and had a first court appearance set for Monday.

Swindell admitted sending 25 letters containing flour to cities in Broward County, according to an affidavit.

He also admitted sending a number of letters to schools in the county with the message: "There is a bomb in your building. No Election Polls Here," the affidavit said. The letters were sent to the schools in August and September.

Last year, Swindell sent letters to the FBI, the Broward County Sheriff's Office and the Fort Lauderdale Police Department saying that people in Broward County were threatening or harassing him, the affidavit said. Swindell signed his name to those letters.

Details of his complaints or any connection he has with Broward officials were not immediately revealed.

Mail hoax suspect�s theories revealed
A Tennessee man accused of sending powder-laced envelopes to Broward County cities was convinced Fort Lauderdale police transplanted mind-control devices in gays to help authorities find drug dealers, according to the man's weekly newsletter.

Dane Swindell, 46, also claimed in his newsletter that Fort Lauderdale police Chief Bruce Roberts illegally arrested gays to give Mayor Jim Naugle and Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne the impression that he was cracking down on crime.

"They descended on the gay community like flies on sugar," wrote Swindell in the Sept. 9 edition of the Orwellean Chain Letter.

In his newsletters, Swindell claimed he was the victim of an illegal conspiracy hatched by Jenne, Roberts and Naugle. In the conspiracy, Fort Lauderdale police would plant "brain transmitters" through the ear canals and into the brains of gay jail inmates.

The inmates, whom he called the "Sting Team," were then sent to the streets, and someone inside Fort Lauderdale police headquarters would give them instructions through the transmitter.

"And if they don't do as they say, they make noise all night long until you go mad trying to get some rest," a Sept. 12 edition of the newsletter said. "The objective for them is very broad but also ... specific. They want names of drug dealers."

In the Orwellean, Swindell claimed he was outfitted with a transmitter around October 2002 and that police were "trying to drive me crazy for around the last 18 months." However, records show Swindell has never been arrested or has a criminal background.

Swindell was also determined to find the device, according to his newsletters.

"I have had three doctors, one CAT scan and one MRI and yet, no luck finding this little bug," Swindell wrote. "Now it is time to go deeper and find exactly the people that are doing the talking and where they are permitting this activity to occur."

During a news conference Friday, Jenne called Swindell an "eccentric personality." The sheriff said Swindell has never undergone a psychiatric evaluation.

Originally posted by infinite8
Wow, amazing how your own mind can turn on you isn't it?

Originally posted by antar
It looks as if this same pattern has been going on for the whole month of October according to this graft:

outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com...

Check it out and see if I am just imagining it or has there been something going on that was not part of the main stream news?

outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com...