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Feds Arrest Man in 2001 Anthrax Probe
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By BEN DOBBIN, Associated Press Writer
WELLSVILLE, N.Y. - Federal agents investigating the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks searched homes Thursday belonging to the founder of an organization that trains medical professionals to respond to chemical and biological attacks. He was later arrested in an altercation with family members at a motel, police said.
More than three dozen agents, some in protective suits, combed through two homes in this upstate New York village at the same time as a similar search occurred in New Jersey.
Authorities provided few specifics about the investigation, other than to say that FBI (news - web sites) and U.S. Postal Inspection Service agents were searching multiple locations in Wellsville and Dover Township, N.J., as part of the anthrax probe.
The searches raised the prospect that authorities may be closer to a break in a case that has baffled investigators nearly three years. Five people were killed and 17 sickened in the anthrax attacks, further rattling a nation already on edge after Sept. 11.
Property records list the New York homes as the addresses of Dr. Kenneth Berry, 48, a bioterrorism expert who once advocated the distribution of anthrax vaccine in major cities. It was not immediately known why the agents searched the homes.
Hours after the search, Berry was arrested and charged with four counts of assault following an altercation that police described as a domestic dispute at a motel in Point Pleasant Beach. He posted $10,000 bail and was later released from the Ocean County Jail.
