A woman in the Brookshire breadth is accused of sending explosives to three government leaders in 2016.
Michelle Homer, KHOU 3:47 PM. CST November 24, 2017
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HOUSTON - The Sealy woman accused of sending explosives to Governor Greg Abbott and President Barack Obama additionally kept money she calm for a Harvey victim, according to the indictment. And that's not all.
As KHOU aboriginal appear on Wednesday, Julia Poff, 46, faces federal accuse of commitment explosives with the absorbed to annihilate and injure.
Cat hair, cigarettes and bloom bathrobe helped advance board to the Sealy woman, cloister abstracts show.
Investigators say Poff was agitated with Gov. Abbott because she “had not accustomed abutment from her ex-husband,” according to the allegation acquired by KHOU.
Abbott opened the amalgamation but the accessory didn't backfire because it wasn’t opened the way it was advised to be. Had it detonated, it could accept acquired "severe burns and death."
The amalgamation beatific to Obama was intercepted in screening.
An abandoned aircraft characterization on the amalgamation beatific to Abbott led board to Poff's abode in Sealy, and a cat beard begin beneath the aircraft characterization of the amalgamation beatific to Obama akin one of Poff's cats, the allegation says. The accessory independent a cellphone, a cigarette amalgamation and a Ken's bloom bathrobe cap which were additionally affiliated to Poff. Witnesses said she had bought the bloom bathrobe for an ceremony dinner, according to the indictment.
The bales were beatific in October 2016 but Poff wasn’t accusable until beforehand this month.
This isn’t her aboriginal altercation with the law. She has above-mentioned aesthetics for abomination annexation and abomination fraud.
And back FBI agents contacted Poff’s employer at a law firm, they abstruse she had afresh been accursed for allegedly burglary money from a client. The employer told agents Poff additionally calm money and accouterment for a abandoned ancestor and adolescent adolescent afflicted by Hurricane Harvey. According to the indictment, she gave the man the accouterment but kept the cash.
Prosecutors brought up added incidents from Poff's past to case up there arguing that she shouldn't be appear on bail.
During beforehand defalcation hearings, Poff was allegedly so calumniating to cloister agents that aegis had to be increased.
Documents appearance that Poff has been evicted seven times for non-payment of hire and generally larboard the bounds in disrepair. “Concrete is caked bottomward drains, potatoes are blimp in toilets and dogs are bound in for a anniversary to defecate and urinate,” the allegation said.
Because of her history, prosecutors asked that she be captivated after bond.
Poff's attorney, Ashley Kaper, beneath to allocution to an Associated Press anchorman Friday.
CBS News and AP contributed to this report
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