More than a dozen members of the Utah National Guard were called to help
with decontamination in North Logan after authorities say a 37-year-old
woman tried to commit suicide there with highly toxic ricin.
North Park Police Chief Kim Hawkes says authorities responded about
10:30 p.m. Wednesday, after the woman's out-of-state cousin reported
receiving troubling texts and a call from her.
Police brought in a hazardous materials team that detected small amounts
of ricin on a grinder, and they evacuated a family of four that was
living upstairs from the woman's basement apartment.
Ricin is derived from castor beans. Hawkes says the woman apparently
ordered 60 castor beans online, ground them up and ate half of them.
She was taken to the hospital, where she was conscious and speaking to police a day later.
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