FORT KENT, Maine — Investigators have determined that a suspicious powder mailed with a letter to Fort Kent Elementary School on Tuesday was flour, the town’s police chief said Friday.
Chief Kenneth Michaud said he was told that testing completed on Thursday in Augusta had ruled out chemicals and determined that it was the common cooking ingredient.
The powder came in an envelope with a letter and had a Rowlette, Texas, postmark.
Tim Doak, superintendent of AOS 95, said the letter was opened in the principal’s office around noon on Tuesday, March 6. The secretary opened it and found the powder and a letter that “said some derogatory things about the FBI,” Doak said.
School officials immediately placed the envelope into a sealed zip-close bag, as protocol dictates. They then called police, who arrived a short time later.
The school was not evacuated.
FBI agents from Waterville drove up to examine the contents of the envelope.
Schools across the nation, including in Texas, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have received similar envelopes with powder in them since Monday, according to The Associated Press. The contents have turned out to be cornstarch in several cases.
Wow. And to think that after 11 years, they still haven’t even conclusively determined who was sending the real stuff to members of Congress in 2001. How many godzillion dollars have been wasted evacuating schools, court houses and government buildings as a result of our national paranoia?
Yes they did. It was a liberal democrat.
And how many more millions has the PO spent on anthrax detection and nothing more…. Wonder who made that smart waste of money.
Another village Id-ot lose in Texas.
Talk about the money? That’s what you talk about? What about the nut who is sending these envolopes to schools across the country? Hope they catch him/she/them and Oh, give them a good talking too.