{"id":751932,"date":"2018-03-22T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=751932"},"modified":"2018-03-22T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T14:25:36","slug":"miami-monkey-importer-mailed-white-powder-to-himself-and-blamed-animal-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=751932","title":{"rendered":"Miami monkey importer mailed white powder to himself, then blamed animal rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DAVID OVALLE:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Worldwide Primates, a controversial South Florida company that imports monkeys for biomedical research, has long attracted the ire of animal-rights protesters. Then came a threatening letter \u2014 loaded with a suspicious white powder \u2014 mailed to the mother of the company\u2019s founder, Matthew Block. Miami Beach police, firefighters and federal agents rushed to the home&#8230; \u201cWE\u2019LL BE BACK AND YOU WON\u2019T KNOW WHEN,\u201d the letter read. \u201cYOU ARE THE LOWEST PIECE OF CRAP WALKING THE EARTH AND YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU DO TO HELPLESS MONKEYS EVERY DAY!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It turns out, the letter was just a ruse \u2014 sent by Block himself. It was part of an elaborate plot intended to frame his longtime nemesis, the animal-rights group called Smash HLS. For sending the letters, Block pleaded guilty recently to a federal charge of intentionally conveying false information through the mail&#8230; At a previously unpublicized hearing in January, Block accepted five years of probation and agreed to pay $14,872 for the cost of the police investigation. He got no prison time&#8217;.<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article204237669.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TstIVOk6ZIo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID OVALLE: &#8216;Worldwide Primates, a controversial South Florida company that imports monkeys for biomedical research, has long attracted the ire of animal-rights protesters. Then came a threatening letter \u2014 loaded with a suspicious white powder \u2014 mailed to the mother of the company\u2019s founder, Matthew Block. Miami Beach police, firefighters and federal agents rushed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":751933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,23,24],"tags":[27,29],"class_list":["post-751932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-rights","category-science","tag-cruelty","tag-experimentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751939,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751932\/revisions\/751939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}