HOUSTON, June 7 (Xinhua) -- A woman in the U.S. state of Texas was charged Friday with mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, U.S. media reported.
The woman, by the name of Shannon Guess Richardson, 35, appeared in a court in the Texas city of Texarkana on Friday after being charged with sending a threatening communication to the president, the website of Houston Chronicle reported.
Richardson is alleged to have sent ricin-tainted letters not only to the White House but also to New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg and the mayor's Washington gun-control group, the report said.
The content of the letters is believed to be threat of violence against gun-control advocates, authorities said. Richardson who was arrested earlier Friday initially told FBI it was her husband who mailed those letters, but later she said he "made her" do it.
The couple is believed to be going through a divorce and the wife, already a mother of five, is now pregnant, the report said.
Richardson, an actress by profession, appears in movies and on TV under the name Shannon Guess. Her resume on the Internet movie database IMDb said she has had small television roles in "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Walking Dead." She had a minor role in the movie "The Blind Side" and appeared in an Avis commercial, according to the resume.
If found guilty, Richardson could face up to 10 years in prison, authorities said.
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