NIH Employee Indicted on Anthrax Charges

A U.S. National Institutes of Health employee was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Miami on terrorism charges, the Miami Herald reported (see GSN, Aug. 5).

The charges stem from a telephone message Michelle Ledgister allegedly left with the Broward County, Fla., Property Appraiser’s Officer threatening anthrax infestation. The U.S. District Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said Ledgister violated the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004, according to the Herald.

Ledgister is next due to appear in court on Aug. 24 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Roberto Santiago, Miami Herald, Aug. 16).

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