The envelope never made it to Judge Arthur Engoron, but caused an emergency response at the courthouse.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who handed down a $355 million ruling against former President Donald Trump in his civil fraud trial, was sent an envelope containing white powder on Wednesday, causing an emergency response at his New York City courthouse, a source with direct knowledge of the incident confirmed to NBC News.
The judge and his staff were not exposed to the substance — his mail is pre-screened on a daily basis and was intercepted before it reached him, the source said. A court officer opened the letter and powder fell out, according to the New York Police Department, exposing the officer and another court employee to the substance, the source said. The New York City Fire Department said the two refused any medical treatment. The threatening letter was first reported by ABC News.
The threat is far from the first against the judge. Police on Long Island responded to a bomb threat at his home last month, hours before closing arguments in the Trump trial were scheduled to begin.
I feel like it would be pretty easy to untraceably send a single letter. False return address, address written slowly with your alternate hand (or printed), dropped in an unmonitored street mailbox a few hours away from your home…how would USPIS find such a person?
In that situation, they wouldn’t find them.
But in many other situations, criminals do dumb things like writing their return address.
Printed? Your printer leaves a unique pattern on all its documents. Oooh
Dropped in a mailbox, oooh the neighbour across the road has a ring doorbell
Didn’t turn off your phone? Ooooh
Let’s be honest though these people probably took a photo of them posting it, and now it’s on up on twitter.
My money would be on Truth Social or a QAnon/Maga facebook group.
People underestimate how prevalent camera doorbells are now thanks to ring. At my girlfriends place about 75 percent of her neighbors on the block have em. Just installed a eufy for my mom a little while ago and she’s super untech savvy. Her apt building also has about 60 percent door cams.
Super helpful tool with tracking bad guys…but also it’s just so creepy and dystopian.
I was trying to see who a stray dog belonged to in my own neighborhood, and pushing the button and talking into these little lenses on every door was so weird.
Neighborhoods are now enclaves full of suspicious hermits…
Municipal or private CCTV by the mailbox? In the UK at least it’s quite common.
Letter boxes don’t stamp the specific location in most places. And even if they did, you could just use an outgoing box at a large community, or someone’s house mailbox.
No, but the CCTV installation surely will.
What CCTV? lol.
The ones I mentioned pepper almost every London junction. In metro areas, there’s also loads of private installations that can be looked at to help identify and track individuals.
Well, maybe in the police-state UK. But we don’t have that over here. And even if we did, as I said, they couldn’t narrow down the exact box in the postal code and if it was in a heavy traffic are there could be thousands of people dropping mail off daily.
where you live? 1980s?
Not in the UK.
There aren’t cameras watching every nook and cranny of my major metropolitan city. That’s not reality.
UK’s one of the most surveilled countries on earth tho innit?
I just like the idea that somebody might be stupid enough to put their real return address on the envelope, and your suggestion is the first time that it’s occurred to them that they might not need to do that.