Cat hair leads to arrest of woman for sending explosives to Obama

Cat hair “shed” light on the identity of a Texas woman accused of sending explosives to Barack Obama.

Julia Poff, a 46-year-old from outside Houston, is charged in federal court with sending explosives in 2016 to the then-president, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Social Security Administration Commissioner Carolyn Colvin.

Federal court documents filed last week say that Abbott opened his package, but that it did not detonate because “he did not open it as designed.”

The ones sent to Obama and Social Security were “rendered safe” after screenings, according to investigators' court testimony reported from KPRC.

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The sender’s spree led to a search for the failed bomber, and they focused on a shipping label on the Abbott package, which had allegedly been sent to Poff from an Ebay purchase before being turned into a weapon.

The package sent to Obama also contained the fruits of a feline's follicles, which a judge said were “microscopically consistent with the hair of one of Poff’s cats.”

Investigators said that Poff said that she sent the explosive to Obama because she did not like him, and that the packages to Abbott and Social Security were based on her not receiving support from her ex-husband or the agency.

Poff was also charged with fraud of the SNAP food stamps program and making a false bankruptcy declaration.

A judge in the case ordered that she be detained because she is a danger to the community and a flight risk.

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