A Quebec woman accused of mailing poison to former U.S. president Donald Trump has pleaded guilty and agreed to a prison sentence of nearly 22 years.
Pascale Ferrier appears in a jail booking photograph taken after her arrest by the Mission Police Department in Mission, Texas, on March 13, 2019.
A Quebec woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump has pleaded guilty and agreed to a prison sentence of nearly 22 years.She also pleaded guilty to eight charges related to similar biological weapons offences committed in Texas. Judge Dabney L. Friedrich still needs to agree to the sentence recommendation of 21 years and 10 months in prison, with a hearing set for a later date.Ferrier, who lived in Saint-Hubert on Montreal's South Shore, was arrested at a U.S. border crossing on Sept. 20, 2020 and charged with sending a letter to Trump containing the poison ricin, which was intercepted Sept. 18 before it was delivered to the White House.
U.S. authorities say Ferrier also sent letters containing ricin to law enforcement and corrections officials in Texas, who were connected to her arrest and detention in that state in the spring of 2019.
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