Utah Home Searched In Connection with Vegas Ricin Find

The FBI searched the suburban Utah home of Roger Von Bergendorff. He’s the guy in the hospital in Las Vegas. The same guy who had ricin in his room, which had nothing to do with terrorism. Anyway, they worked his house over pretty good:

[FBI agent Timothy] Fuhrman announced Sunday night that the search of the home and three storage units had concluded, but would not say whether the agents found anything related to the ricin scare in Las Vegas. Fuhrman did say after the daylong search that all of the Utah locations were safe.

Nearby homes were evacuated as FBI agents, covered from head to toe in full hazardous-material protection suits, meticulously searched the home belonging to Von Bergendorff’s cousin Thomas Tholen.

This is not terrorist related, but there were some other things in Von Bergendorff’s Vegas hotel room:

Las Vegas police said that firearms, an “anarchist-type textbook” and castor beans, from which ricin is made, were found in the room where the poison was discovered. The book was tabbed at a spot containing information about ricin.

Fuhrman said investigators were still trying to figure out why Von Bergendorff would have ricin but said there was no indication of any terrorist activity.

::blinks::

Is there some sort of amateur anarchists convention in Sin City right now? I mean, is there another reason for him to be making ricin? Some kind of adult science experiment that had to be conducted in a Vegas hotel room? Come on. I’m still tagging this “terrorism.”

But this is not terrorist related.