Texas woman charged with mailing explosives to state’s governor and obama
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Julia Poff, a 46-year-old woman in Sealy, Texas, has been accused of mailing homemade explosives to then-President Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in October 2016. A third package went to
the Social Security Administration. Only Abbott opened the package, but according to documents filed in court in Texas this week, “it failed to explode because he did not open it as
designed.” Had the device exploded, the documents state that it could have caused “severe burns and death” to the state’s Republican governor. The federal agent assigned to the case
testified that the package had an “obliterated shipping label” for an EBay order that was sent to Julia Poff, which led authorities to her address. They found a garage full of fireworks, and
a number of pieces of evidence, including a salad dressing bottle cap in the explosive device that matched salad dressing witnesses say Poff had used for her anniversary dinner, and
packaging for Pall Mall red cigarettes containing pyrotechnic powder, later found at her home. READ THIS STORY FOR FREE To continue reading, sign up for our newsletters and get unlimited
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