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FBI agents have found needles, syringes, six empty vials of deadly puffer fish toxin and a book about poisoning people in the home of a man who allegedly posed as a doctor to get the legal substance.

A Chicago-area businessman was being held without bond Tuesday on charges of possessing a deadly poison found in puffer fish.

Edward F. Bachner IV, the Lake In The Hills man charged with buying Tetrodotoxin, a deadly neurotoxin, and having it delivered to a UPS store in Algonquin, appeared in U.S. Federal Court in Rockford Wednesday.

A man charged with possessing a deadly toxin appears in Federal Court in Rockford Wednesday.

LAKE IN THE HILLS, Ill. A suburban Chicago man is in federal custody, accused of possessing a poison that the government says is 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide.

A Lake in the Hills man charged with obtaining a deadly toxin will remain locked up until at least Monday after a federal magistrate this morning postponed a hearing to determine whether it is safe to allow him ...

With the emerald ash borer beetle confirmed a dozen miles away near Hampshire, it was probably only a matter of time before the deadly insect was found in Algonquin or Lake in the Hills.

STNG/WBBM report : 'A northwest suburban man is expected to face charges for illegal possession of a toxin following an FBI search of a Lake in the Hills home on Monday afternoon in McHenry County ' Members of ...

A man who is accused of possessing a deadly toxin found in puffer fish was previously suspected in a murder-for-hire plot, a federal affidavit said.

A Close Up of the Crime Scene and FBI Tent Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Around 11:00 AM Central Time on Monday June 30 2008 a house in Suburban Chicago Town, Lake in the Hills , The FBI, Police, Hazmat Team, Bomb ...

Federal authorities on Monday charged a Lake in the Hills man with possession of a pufferfish toxin in an amount that one expert said could kill almost 100 people.