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| Jail Escapee Suspected in Anthrax Hoax Letters Caught |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/17/2001 |
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An abortion foe who escaped from jail and spent months crisscrossing the nation has been arrested for allegedly mailing hundreds of anthrax hoax letters to abortion clinics, ending a manhunt for one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives. Clayton Lee Waagner, 45, was captured December 5 at a suburban Cincinnati Kinko's copy shop where he was using a rented computer. He was carrying $10,000 in cash and had a loaded .40-caliber handgun tucked into his waistband. Attorney General John Ashcroft has called Waagner the primary suspect in anthrax hoaxes committed against 280 clinics last month. The clinics received envelopes containing white powder and letters signed, 'Army of God.' The powder was not anthrax. He claimed responsibility for the letters when he showed up with a gun at the Georgia home of an anti-abortion activist last week, according to authorities. U.S. Attorney Gregory Lockhart said his office would review whether Waagner could be subject to life imprisonment under the federal 'three-strikes'' law, because he had a weapon and had been convicted of three violent crimes. The FBI said Waagner's criminal record includes attempted robbery and burglary convictions in Ohio and a firearms conviction in a Michigan federal court. Waagner had escaped from a jail in Clinton, Ill., in February, while awaiting sentencing for auto theft and weapons offenses. |
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