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Prisoner faces new charges for sending mail threats to Trump, judges
47-year-old prisoner Rodney Cydrus is set to face fresh charges after he allegedly sent a mail threatening President Donald Trump and federal judges in letters he mailed to the FBI and a public defender’s office.
The Ohio inmate in the sent mail threatened to hurt a number of government officials and that some of the mail last month contained white powder that turned out to be harmless.
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Cydrus has been imprisoned at the Lebanon Correctional Institution for convictions that include arson, aggravated robbery and theft.
According to prosecutors, Cydrus was indicted this week in federal court on multiple counts of mailing threatening communications. Court records list no attorney for him in the case.
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