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Taiwanese man has been arrested on suspicion of sending threatening letters
containing live mealworms and ceremonial money — traditionally used in rituals
for the dead — to local celebrities, police said Wednesday.
The case
was first reported last month when a record company received a letter addressed
to pop singer Jam Hsiao which contained a bag of crawling worms and similar
letters were also mailed to a well-known lawyer, an entertainment industry
agent and a chain restaurant.
The
suspect, identified only by his family Lai, was apprehended late Tuesday in
Kaohsiung City, after police interviewed aquariums and bird shops selling the
yellow mealworm used in the threat letters to track him down.
According
to the police, Lai admitted that he sent the worms and the ceremonial money to
celebrities in a bid to gain attention, because he was upset that his
girlfriend was prosecuted for violating trademark law.
In
Taiwan, ceremonial paper money is usually burnt in rituals to pay respect to
the deceased but it is also used to lay a curse and make death threats.
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