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February 29th, 2008
Posted: 03:06 PM ET
LAS VEGAS (CNN) — Two tests have confirmed a substance found in a Las Vegas extended-stay hotel room is the deadly poison ricin, and a man who was staying there has been hospitalized for more than two weeks and is currently in critical condition, police said Friday. The man, whose name was not released, summoned authorities Feb. 14 and asked to be transported to a hospital because of difficulty breathing, Kathy Suey, deputy chief of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, told reporters. But police were not aware of the ricin’s existence until Thursday, when a second man, who identified himself as a relative of the victim, went to the Extended Stay America room to clear the victim’s possessions out and found the substance. That man brought the poison, which was in vials in a plastic bag, to the manager’s office, and police were notified. |
 
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