{"id":693719,"date":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=693719"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:50:13","slug":"congressional-offices-receive-threatening-letters-and-mystery-white-powder-prosecutors-identify-alleged-sender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=693719","title":{"rendered":"Congressional offices receive threatening letters and mystery white powder \u2014 prosecutors identify alleged sender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man has been arrested in connection with several letters containing a white substance that were sent to congressmembers.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take authorities long to track down Matthew Unglesbee, who is facing charges of false information and hoaxes, and mailing threatening communications in Illinois. After all, the four letters bore his name and return address, which he allegedly says he was inspired to do after seeing prior coverage of other suspicious mail sent to officials. According to NBC News<\/a>, Unglesbee denied having any connection to the previous envelopes and said the granular substance was \u201csalt\u201d which he admits \u201ckind of looks like\u201d anthrax.<\/p>\n

Three of the letters reportedly read \u201cHA HA\u201d while a fourth read \u201cHAH enjoy the gift.\u201d A fifth, unsent letter that was addressed to another member of congress was found during a search of the man\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, whose office received not one but two suspicious envelopes, released a statement following the man\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m aware of reports that a suspect has been taken into custody in connection with the most recent suspicious letter sent to my Skokie office. I will not let threats stand in the way of serving the people of the 9th District. My community relies on the services our office provides, and my team and I will continue doing the work I was elected to do,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case began after an anonymous online tipster told the FBI that they overheard Unglesbee talking about mailing a suspicious substance to members of Congress. The tip was received on Oct. 16, and the FBI responded when the letters showed up at the offices of members of Congress three days later,\u201d NBC News reported.<\/p>\n

As BizPac Review previously reported<\/a>, at least 36 lawmakers and election offices in at least ten states have reported receiving mysterious letters with white powder and other substances.<\/p>\n

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes explained that while the powder sent to the election office in his state had tested negative for toxicity, it is still harmful in its own way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe substance that was collected had gone through labs last night, initially just to check toxicity. That came back negative,\u201d Fontes told CNN. \u201cI don\u2019t have any specific information as to what the substance actually is, but it is not harmful to human beings at this time. The distraction of elections officials during this very, very busy time, and the intimidation of \u2014 potential intimidation \u2014 of voters is harm. That is harm to our democracy, that is harm to our election systems that we want to run smoothly without intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A man has been arrested in connection with several letters containing a white substance that were sent to congressmembers. It didn\u2019t take authorities long to track down Matthew Unglesbee, who is facing charges of false information and hoaxes, and mailing threatening communications in Illinois. After all, the four letters bore his name and return address,… Continue reading Congressional offices receive threatening letters and mystery white powder \u2014 prosecutors identify alleged sender<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}