Ms. Ferrier was arrested on Sept. 20, 2020, days after she mailed the ricin letters. When she was driving from Canada to Buffalo, she told border officials that she was wanted by the F.B.I. for sending the letters. The authorities then discovered that Ms. Ferrier was traveling with a loaded firearm, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, two knives, a stun gun, pepper spray, a truncheon and a fake ID, according to court filings.
In each of the nine letters that she sent, Ms. Ferrier said that if the “special gift,” referring to the ricin, did not work, she would “find a better recipe for another poison,” according to court documents.
In the letter addressed to Mr. Trump, Ms. Ferrier wrote, “You ruin USA and lead them to disaster.”
“I have US cousins, then I don’t want the next 4 years with you as President,” she wrote. “Give up and remove your application for this election!”
After the letters were detected, “mass destruction coordinators” and hazardous materials experts were deployed to several locations in the United States to intercept them, and they were later sent for additional testing, according to court documents.
In March 2019, while Ms. Ferrier was living in the United States, she was arrested by the police in Mission, Texas, and charged with possession of an unlicensed weapon, resisting arrest and carrying a fake driver’s license. While she was in custody in Texas, the authorities discovered that Ms. Ferrier had overstayed a six-month visa, and she was deported to Canada.
