Feds Arrest Man in 2001 Anthrax Probe
That’s a misleading headline. Evidently they arrested him for a domestic dispute and then let him go again.
Authorities provided few specifics about the investigation, other than to say that FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents were searching multiple locations in Wellsville and Dover Township, N.J., as part of the anthrax probe.
The searches raised the prospect that authorities may be closer to a break in a case that has baffled investigators nearly three years. Five people were killed and 17 sickened in the anthrax attacks, further rattling a nation already on edge after Sept. 11.
Property records list the New York homes as the addresses of Dr. Kenneth Berry, 48, a bioterrorism expert who once advocated the distribution of anthrax vaccine in major cities. It was not immediately known why the agents searched the homes.
Hours after the search, Berry was arrested and charged with four counts of assault following an altercation that police described as a domestic dispute at a motel in Point Pleasant Beach. He posted $10,000 bail and was later released from the Ocean County Jail.
Seems to be still one of those very confusing cases.
[update] His website is here (found at Chuck’s site). He doesn’t seem to have done much since 1998.
[update 2]NJ Star Ledger has more on the Berry.
