Suspect Identified in Kansas Election Agency Suspicious Letter Incident

Preliminary tests indicate the substance in the letter is not hazardous; incident not linked to other recent threatening letters.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has identified a suspect in the incident involving a suspicious letter sent to the state's top elections agency, but no arrest has been announced.
The substance in the suspicious letter, which prompted the evacuation of the Kansas secretary of state's office, does not appear to be hazardous according to preliminary tests.
The suspicious letter sent to the Kansas secretary of state's office is not believed to be connected to threatening letters sent to election offices in other states or to letters containing a harmless white powder sent to Republican legislators in Kansas, Montana, and Tennessee in June.
The Kansas secretary of state's office, which was evacuated due to the suspicious letter, reopened on Wednesday morning.
The incident in Kansas occurred less than a week after election offices in at least five states received threatening mail, some containing the potentially dangerous opioid fentanyl.