A Canadian woman who sent a poison-laced letter to then-President Donald Trump in 2020 was sentenced to almost 22 years in a United States prison, a U.S. district judge ruled Thursday.
Pascale Ferrier, a 56-year-old dual Canadian and French citizen, was sentenced to 262 months in prison, as outlined by a plea deal, which will also see her removed from the U.S. after finishing her sentence. Ferrier pleaded guilty to violating biological weapons when sending letters that contained the poison ricin to Trump and police officials in Texas, where she had been jailed in 2019.
“If it [the poison] doesn’t work, I’ll find better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I’ll be able to come," the letter to Trump read."Enjoy! FREE REBEL SPIRIT.” Ferrier's attorney, Eugene Ohm, told the court that the Canadian had no criminal record prior to an arrest in Texas where she would not leave a park after it closed, and the arrest in Buffalo. Ohm also described her as “inordinately intelligent” and claimed Ferrier earned a master’s degree in engineering and raised two children as a single parent.
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