Dive Brief:
- FBI Special Agent Daniel Capone discovered evidence in Brian Norton’s garbage can and recycling bin tying him to a series of 21 letters containing simulated anthrax. The letters were sent to institutions and TV personalities.
- According to U.S. District Court records, in 2013 the federal agent found newspaper pages scrawled with handwritten letters in the suspect’s recycling. The papers matched evidence collected 15 years earlier at various crime scenes.
- Norton has been charged with two felonies and faces fines totaling a quarter of a million dollars and a decade in prison.
Dive Insight:
Capone searched through the suspect’s waste on multiple “garbage nights” after Norton put out the trash for collection in Cicero, NY.
