recently made known YORK -- A taunt...

recently made known YORK -- A taunting missive containing a white triturate that was sent to a police station fall of the curtained with "Catch me if you can."

Police had no disarrange catching the suspect: He signed the literal sense and included his return address forward the envelope.

Abdullah Date, 18 was charged with sending the threatening alphabetic character to the 73rd Precinct in Brooklyn and ordered held without bail, according to a criminal complaint unsealed last week in Brooklyn federal court. The white pulverize turned out to be harmless.

Authorities said Date has had other run-ins with police. yet the complaint only addressed an incident last month in which Date allegedly threw vials of crack gone out of the window of his Brooklyn domicile while police watched.

The obscenity-filled literal meaning which authorities said was mailed in anger from one side of to the other the drug bust, said: "Ha, Ha [you] reflection it was anthrax." It conclusioned with "Catch me if you can," and was signed "Abdullah Date," according to the complaint. His family address appeared on the wrapper it said.

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