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| Florida Inmate Gets 20 Years for Sending Fake Anthrax Threats |
| By Miami Herald |
| Published: 10/21/2002 |
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A Lee County Jail inmate who tried to send letters containing an anthrax-like powdery substance to banks, newspapers and syndicated columnist 'Miss Manners' has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Circuit Chief Judge William Blackwell recently sentenced Cory Perry, 34, after he pleaded guilty Sept. 9 to two bank robberies, two counts of grand theft and five counts of manufacturing a hoax weapon of mass destruction. Blackwell classified Perry as a habitual felony offender. 'Mr. Perry has made a lot of mistakes,' said Ian Mann, Perry's court-appointed attorney. 'He came to realize that and admitted the mistakes he has made and has taken the punishment the state of Florida thought was appropriate.' Perry was in jail Oct. 15, 2001 on bank robbery and grand theft charges when jail officials discovered a powdery substance in several of his letters addressed to businesses in Lee County, 'Miss Manners,' banks he had robbed, The Fort Myers News-Press and a Cape Coral couple. Each of the letters contained a message that said 'Time to Die Today,' police said. The letters were sent last fall during the height of the anthrax scare across the nation. Perry later told police the powder came from the laxative Metamucil, which he bought at the jail's commissary. |
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