List members,

And I have to ask is this SANITY?

Shaking head,

Karen



FBI Makes Arrest in Alleged Schiavo Murder Plot
Man Offered $250,000 for Killing of Brain-Damaged Woman's Husband
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050325210609990002
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (March 25) - A North Carolina man was charged by the FBI on
Friday with offering a $250,000 bounty for the murder of Michael Schiavo, the
husband of a brain-damaged Florida woman dying in a hospice after years of
legal wrangling with her parents.


AP
Richard Alan Meywe is accused of sending an e-mail putting a $250,000 bounty
"on the head of Michael Schiavo."


Richard Alan Meywes was arrested without incident at his home in Fairview,
the FBI said. Tim Stutheit, an FBI spokesman in Charlotte, declined to give
Meywes' age.
Meywes was charged in Tampa, Fla., with murder for hire and with the
transmission of interstate threatening communications. He was being held in the
Buncombe County Detention Center and faces a U.S. Magistrate's hearing Monday in
Asheville. He will eventually be brought to Tampa to face the charges against
him, the FBI said.
Meywes is accused of sending an e-mail putting a $250,000 bounty "on the head
of Michael Schiavo" and another $50,000 to eliminate a judge who denied a
request to intervene in the Schiavo case, the FBI said in a prepared statement.
The FBI did not identify the judge.
"The e-mail also made reference to the recent death of a judge in Atlanta and
the death of (a) judge's family members in Illinois," the FBI said.
Sara Oates, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Tampa, said the e-mail was sent to
news organizations in Florida.
"We take any threat of murder over the Internet seriously," Oates said. "It
doesn't matter who they are threatening. We take it seriously."
Cpl. Todd Ernst of the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office said Meywes had no
prior criminal record in the county where the arrest took place.
Michael Schiavo's wife, Terri, suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart
stopped briefly from a chemical imbalance believed to have been brought on by
an eating disorder. She left no living will.
She's been kept alive but in a persistent vegetative state as her husband and
her parents fought in court about whether she should be allowed to die.
Last week, Congress and President Bush entered the battle to force the case
to be heard by federal courts. Since then, all courts, including the U.S.
Supreme Court, have refused to intervene to order Terri Schiavo's feeding tubes
restored.
03/25/05 20:55 EST
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP

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