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Valley man, 39, arraigned on mail threats
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| Last Edited | RP Nov 20, 2006 05:01pm |
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| Category | Idiocy |
| News Date | Monday, November 13, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Chad Castagana had no driver's license, so when he decided to send threatening letters to celebrities and politicians he walked to mailboxes on Ventura Boulevard near Canoga Avenue, according to an FBI affidavit.
On Monday, the 39-year-old Woodland Hills man was arraigned in U.S. District Court and is being held without bail until Thursday, when a judge would reconsider his bail. He faces charges of conveying false information and sending threats and hoaxes via the U.S. mail, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Federal agents said he had sent more than a dozen letters containing a mysterious white powder to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, "Late Show" host David Letterman and "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart among other high-profile figures.
On an old van parked in the driveway of Castagana's hillside home, the phrase "Death to all liberals" is inscribed on the van's dirty back window.
Castagana lived in a beige, multistory hillside home on Baza Avenue with his 78-year-old mother, Geneve, reportedly suffers from diabetes and rarely ventures out.
Castagana "described himself as a compulsive voter who votes Republican, and he said that he sent the letters to specific individuals because he did not like their liberal politics," according to an FBI affidavit. |
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