Birmingham, AL – A federal grand jury has indicted two men in connection with a series of hoax anthrax letters mailed in Alabama.
One man, 38-year-old Clifton Lamar Dodd of Lincoln, is charged with mailing 15 hoax letters between March 6 and April 5 containing white powder that officials say could have been perceived as anthrax.
Authorities say one of the letters was delivered to Sen. Richard Shelby's office. They say the Talladega County sheriff, judges in the county and other officials also received such letters.
Dodd and 38-year-old Milstead Earl Darden of Lincoln are charged with mailing eight other anthrax hoax letters.
Postal inspectors arrested the two on April 24 after they deposited eight letters in an outdoor drop box at the Pell City Post Office.
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