Investigation of letter threatening Gov. Charlie Crist dead ends

“Boom!! You are dead Charlie. This is a sample of what you got coming!! You Should Have Died in St. Pet But I will kill you Soon very soon no matter what happens to me my people will see this through you are not safe, nor your family I know everything about you we will get you we have the money t”

Who wrote this (grammatically) threatening letter to Gov. Charlie Crist last year? Who enclosed it in an envelope with a white powder meant to look like anthrax or some other poison?

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement never could figure it out, despite months of investigation spanning three counties. The letter arrived in Tallahassee Aug. 20, just as John McCain was considering whether to pick Crist as a vice presidential running mate.

One central figure sounds like a political rival: Jimmy Davis.

But he’s not Jim Davis, the Democrat Crist beat to become governor in 2006. His full name is Jimmy Lee Davis, a former St. Petersburg cop. Davis, also a Democrat, told FDLE he voted for Crist because “the governor is a Republican who acted like a Democrat.” (Davis however didn’t like Crist’s U.S. Sugar bailout/Everglades buyout plan).

One reason Davis probably didn’t do it: The threat letter itself. It was signed “Mr. Davis” and bore his return address in the Manatee County town of Palmetto. Almost no one is that stupid. Even in Flori-duh.

Jimmy Lee Davis suspected a former girlfriend or two could have set him up. One had threatened to get the “crackers” (i.e., white people) after him for failure to pay child support. Maybe it was the former husband or a former boyfriend of the woman he was going to marry just before the threat letter was mailed? Maybe it was one of two seemingly unrelated ex cons? FDLE agents spoke to all of them. They gathered video from the Palmetto post office, combed computer records, and took handwriting samples and DNA swabs. When one refused to give a DNA sample, agents staked him out to recover the plastic-tipped Black & Mild cigars he discarded on the ground after smoking them.

The investigation, which we wrote about shortly after a mail clerk spotted the suspicious envelope at a screening area away from the Capitol, was closed in April. We remembered to ask for it recently. It makes for interesting summer doldrums reading in Tallahassee, replete with jilted lovers, a mention of Free Masonry and loads of suspicious dead ends. Special Agent Larry Ruby’s conclusion is a yuck:

The writer states “my people” and “we will get you we have the money to.” Research has shown that words such as “my people” and “we” are phrases used to empower the writer. This writer has no group or associates.

It is the opinion of SA Ruby that the threat level based on the letter to be minimal or a low risk for actually carrying out the threat. The writer of the letter starts with BOOM!! But encloses a sugar substance that has no BOOM associated with it, making the letter fraudulent in its entirety. No boom and no real chemical substance.

No boom. Unsubstantial. Fake. That describes so much in the state Capitol.

Download Threat Letter to Gov EI August 08

Marc Caputo, Times/Herald Tallahassee bureau

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Comments

[More extremist wackos]

It's not hard to figure out,when leaders call for action akin to treason,including one even telling how best to kill ATF agents if they come for your weapons!!!

[terminator]

please.......get over yourself guys.

Chuckles the Clown Crist? Who would want to do him harm?

Chuck is so inconsequential this isn't even newsworthy.

He's got a better chance of being injured in his daily rubdown from Miquel the cabana boy!

[Just Sayin]

Here is my case against Obama:

Article 2, Section 2, US Constitution:

"He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur"

Please explain how he was able to sign a treaty with Russia without following this specific protocol.

Dictator:

In modern usage, the term "dictator" is generally used to describe a leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount of personal power, especially the power to make laws without effective restraint by a legislative assembly. (Wiki)

[Richard Tennison]

terminator:

You and your mother are the only people who find you funny. Your lines are always the same and so unimaginative. Its sad really, you post under this clever little alias, with nothing constructive to say and without the fortitude to post under your real name. So sad yet so predictable.

[you always notice the newbees]

Sounds like something Tony would do.

[Da' boys]

Tony, or Tommy or Chet?

[?]

Thank you Richard! I agree. Termie must be the fat little kid everyone picked on because he sure sounds like grade school.

[Corporatist Oligarchy]

Hope you Feds are keeping an eye on "Just Sprayin" - he's one of those Fascist-Libertarians who hate government and want to use violence to overthrow democarcy in the USA.

[?]

9:00 clearly has a hard time with basic reading comprehension.

[-o ~<----8]

I don’t think this is a big deal at all. Probably just a p’d-off boy-toy masseur from Gulfport that Chuck forgot to tip!

[interesting pairing]

9:00 - it is interesting that you would choose to combine fascist and libertarian. Two schools of thought that could not possibly be further apart.

I guess you are an example of what happens when two liberals join in matrimony.

[Just Sayin]

9:39 I posted direct text from our constitution and describe how Obama totally ignored it. Since he was sworn to uphold the Constitution, he is in violation of his duties.

The Bonehead at 9:00, as you noted, totally wrong in his analysis, asks the FEDERAL GOVT to investigate me; a veiled threat meant to silence my right to free speech.

See the irony? He encouraged Fascism to silence my protected right to voice my political opinion; exactly the type of speech protected by the 1st amendment.

This loser trolls around the blogs endlessly ridiculing anyone that doesn’t worship his false idol Obama, never debating facts; simply using the politics of personal destruction.

This is why we are stuck with the Marxists in DC and a good example of what political debate in this country has fallen to.

Have your fun, your time is limited. 2010 will get some checks on the false idol, 2012 we will send him back to his community. It is the Trillions of dollars in debt and the utter destruction of capitalism that concerns me most.

[just sprayin is an bomb-throwing anarchist]

Just Sprayin - using violence to overthrow the government is not included in your right to free speech. Please park the tank and put down the homemade explosive devices. Obama was properly and legally elected to office precisely because your conservative corporatist polices are such a failure. Accept responsibility and quit pouting you big baby.

[how 'bout them repiggies]

Bush/Cheney totally disregarded the U.S. Constitution, and have brought our nation to the brink of economic disaster with their off-the-books trillions for that Iraq black hole.

Of course, that is okay with the Teabagistan denizens, because of the political agenda at the time. They were promised so much on the abortion issue, but look at what happened - nothing - even after eight years of Bush/Cheney
and a concurrent six years of repiggie total domination of both houses of Congress.

A high-school diploma (or lack thereof) is insufficient for today's world. I suggest that the Teabaggers should remedy their educational deficiencies by further study and reading, not listening to FoxNews.

[Coach]

Sending theatening mail to anyone is unacceptable. No politics there.

To respond to rp's sophmoric drivel here, please tell us which part of the Constitution that President Bush disregarded? I think you'll find that he didn't.
By the way, we won in Iraq. Al Queado was defeated there and we have a nation that will be a strategic and economic partner.
You're use of the term "teabag" is obscene, grotesue and immature. It demonstrates a argument completely lacking in clarity of any sort. The hate that it represents is something the be condemned and not accpeted in civilized discussion.

[terminator]

Richard and 9:00am:

lighten up there a little boys. you take yourself way too seriously.
we all know Chuck is androgynous.

now get back to your singlewide out there in Riverview and stop beatin up on your wife and kids!

[how 'bout them repiggies]

Coach, you are delusional.

Stop parroting the FoxNews crap.

The only thing "we" accomplished in Iraq was the establishment of yet another Islamic theocracy.

Try working on your hate, pal.

[Just Sayin]

10:22 In case you have not heard, we have something called a Constitution.

The President swears to protect it. As I noted above, he has not with his unilateral treaty with the Russians.

I suggested that this rapid swing to Marxism will not work with the voters, and in 2010, we will see a shift back toward more conservative policies. These include individual liberty, limited government, personal freedom and states rights.

How you spin this to mean I am advocating violence further proves you inability to understand basic principals of our founding and our recourse when we are wronged.

Now to your point that 2008 was a “legal election” is another indication of your ignorance of the facts. Mickey Mouse and untold others, illegally registered by ACORN voted for your idol. ACORN is under investigation in well over a dozen states for voter fraud.

To make matters worse, the federal govt, since 1993 have funded this group and just yesterday Barney Frank suggested sending them $1.5 BILLION more for TARP profits (what a joke).

Stick that in your crack pipe and smoke it you fool.

[Buzzard.]

11:13 - Morning, Pig! I agree, we didn't accomplish crap in Iraq. Vietnam or North Korea either. What do you suppose we'll accomplish in Lostghanistan?

[...]

I hate George DUMBYA Bush!!!

[how 'bout them repiggies]

Teabagistan is teeming with FoxNews spewing zombies.

By the way, it was FoxNews that led the charge on the use of the term "teabagging," not the liberals, not the Clintons, not Obama, not the feminists, not the gays, not the pro-choicers.

it was FoxNews, the unfair and unbalanced agit-prop machine, your own choice of crack.

[Oink oink]

Mr. Pig, do you have some evidence that FoxNews started the "Teabagging" label other than your own incoherent ramblings? Why not enlighten us with a link?

[.]

the pig doesn't even have evidence of a brain

[how 'bout them repiggies]

Oooh, the crazies of Teabagistan are going into warp drive right now. All these little hyper repiggies are foreign policy experts and financial whiz kids who will show our poor nation how it is really done.

You folks had your day during the two terms of the Bush/Cheney regime.

What a mess!

Don't quit your day jobs, experts. Let's keep those teabagging rallies coming. You people are better than the comics page.

Sarah Palin, just like that other dimwit George W. Bush,
can't make a subject and a verb agree, let alone warring parties throughout the world. That so many of you love her and would vote for her in a heartbeat illustrates your complete and utter dementia.

[Greetings Comrades]

When in the course of human events, the people living in a democracy determine they can vote themselves a raise from the federal treasury, a new system is born,called Socialism. Once the demand on the treasury becomes so great, and the people become angry because there is not enough in the treasury to go around; a Dictatorship is born.

Paraphrased loosely, but still true.

[g]

11:40/"how 'bout them repiggies" is a sign that the quality of staff the FDP chooses to hire is really going down quickly.

[Just Sayin]

Repiggie, When you find out that the economic situation we are in now was mostly the fault of people like Billary, Barney Fagrank, Chris "pay to play" Dodd and the other Socialists i Congress, will you change your opinion?

Oh yeah thats right, you are programmed to please your Dear Leader and do not have the mental capacity to actually think for youself.

Nevermind!

[Tea bag parties are just anti Obama rallies started by the extremist centralized governing body Heritage Foundation]

I am insulted that all of a sudden we have to jump up and down and protest debt.Debt was loved under Bush,debt was discussed as a good sound business plan.
The extremists have misconstrued the meaning of the original tea parties.
I assume that's why the name change to tea bag party.We all know the most famous hate slingers and political hitmen are not in the Democratic party,and the list of pro GOP paid liars is as long as it is well known.
The current tea bag parties has no connection to the tea parties our forefathers had.
Its hard to condemn debt after 8 years of explaining to the American people this debt is good for us all to then suddenly make an abrupt 180 now.
Put down the weekly standard or national enquirer,oh I mean national review,they are propaganda.
BTW Murdoch's British media empire has to answer to the police there about hacking into politicians and famous peoples phones,I expect this to bleed over to the US.
Murdoch empire newscorp had an $8.4 million write down last quarter,thought you would want to know that.The standard or review have never made murdoch money,why does he keep them?

[Tea bag parties are just anti Obama rallies started by the extremist centralized governing body Heritage Foundation]

I am insulted that all of a sudden we have to jump up and down and protest debt.Debt was loved under Bush,debt was discussed as a good sound business plan.
The extremists have misconstrued the meaning of the original tea parties.
I assume that's why the name change to tea bag party.We all know the most famous hate slingers and political hitmen are not in the Democratic party,and the list of pro GOP paid liars is as long as it is well known.
The current tea bag parties has no connection to the tea parties our forefathers had.
Its hard to condemn debt after 8 years of explaining to the American people this debt is good for us all to then suddenly make an abrupt 180 now.
Put down the weekly standard or national enquirer,oh I mean national review,they are propaganda.
BTW Murdoch's British media empire has to answer to the police there about hacking into politicians and famous peoples phones,I expect this to bleed over to the US.
Murdoch empire newscorp had an $8.4 million write down last quarter,thought you would want to know that.The standard or review have never made murdoch money,why does he keep them?

[Coach]

Where to start....you're getting even further from reality. The Iraqi's currently operate in a parlaimentary democracy that operates with the blessing of the regions most influential cleric, Sastani. Intrestingly, Sastani is considered in the region to be more respected than is the Al Khamenei of Iran. Sastani, in fact, has rebuked the Irania mullahs for the brutal repression of their people. You've got those talking points down from Markos though. A little outdated, but you;ve got them just the same.

Thanks for calling me pal, btw.

[Just Sayin]

Hey TeaBagger (1:02) Debt is hurtfull to our economy, no matter who causes it. The Govt sucks up private sources capital, making it more expensive to the rest of us.

Bush failed his conservative base with his LIBERAL spending.

Obama's debt is beyond anything ever seen before. In fact, by the time he is done, he will have spent more than ALL previous POUS.

Simpletons like you, with an complete absence of any economic knowledge, couldn't possibly understand the threat posed by trillions in additional debt and printing money out of thin air.

Just hang in there, soon we will all be suffering the effects of this policy. When all the "Rich, Greedy CEO's and Wall Street" types are bankrupt and small business is wiped off the map; where will your beloved Federal Dictatorship go to make up for the shortfall?

[Coach]

Chaseed them off with facts, Just sayin. I think theyre relying on astroturffing today and fillibustering off topic.

[how 'bout them repiggies]

Just Sayin,

I'm not the repiggie, sweetheart. You are.

Oink, oink, baby.

[Just Sayin]

Chaseed them off with facts, Coach. I think theyre relying on astroturffing today and fillibustering off topic.

[Just Sayin]

Chaseed them off with Limbaugh Lies and Rove Regurgitations, Roach. I think Ron Paul and his anarchist crazies are the new future of the conservative movement but I voted for Bush - twice. How about you Roach?

[Roach Coach]

Megga Dittos there lil' buddy. Voted for Reagan twice and Bush six times in 2000 alone. Hussein Osama nyuk nyuk!

[Coach]

Wow...the kiddies are playing today. OK. No articuate argument. No adults.

[Just Sayin]

Coach, you see now how this Marxist was elected. These guys are perfect examples of the typical American Idol (BHO) voter.

If you didnt notice, they were all absent from the blogs while they wept for the King of Pill Popping's funeral.

It is said that the meek will inherit the earth. Well enough, but we will take it right back from them; afterall they are just a bunch of meeks.

[libom-noxxe]

Coach we're so full of ourselves. I don't think the commies and socialists have stopped laughing yet. Have you sent the secret message to rrabbob? Tonight is the night!

[The Gipper]

Let's not tip our hand just yet, sprayin. Please swith to code #27a.

BarackHussein DukeWallace BarrBarrBarr Over.

[Coach]

Nicely done! Keep you ideology coming!!

[Just Sayin]

9:36 Thanks! Hey Tarks after the "revolution" maybe we can get together and swap recipes from the Anarchist's Cookbook?