Criminal Justice
Motive Revealed For Man Who Threatened Justice Thomas, Others
Posted May 19, 2008, 12:15 pm CST
By Molly McDonough
The FBI has revealed that David Tuason wrote hundreds of racially charged letters and threats to black and mixed-race men because an ex-girlfriend left him for a black man. That wasn't the profile the FBI expected.
Tuason, who pleaded guilty last week to sending the letters, reportedly admitted the motive to the FBI when he was captured two months ago, the Associated Press reports.
The AP notes that the FBI was surprised that a jilted man was the source of the letters and e-mail sent to Thomas and New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, among others.
Tuason, 46, was arrested in March after the FBI tracked him via a public library computer.
"It's a lesson in considering the obvious," Frank Figliuzzi, the head of the FBI in Cleveland, is quoted saying. "You can over complicate profiles and assessments and when you arrest the guy, he says, 'My girlfriend left me for a black man.' "