California man arrested after FBI manhunt pleads not guilty to bomb, gun charges; bail denied
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A California man arrested after an FBI manhunt has pleaded not guilty to charges that he possessed an illegal destructive device and a handgun with serial numbers removed.
Ryan Chamberlain entered his plea Monday in federal court in San Francisco. A magistrate judge then found Chamberlain to be a flight risk and a danger to the public, and refused a request to release him from jail to a hospital for mental health treatment pending trial.
In arguing against the release, a prosecutor disclosed that investigators had seized a handful of castor beans in Chamberlain's apartment in San Francisco in addition to the toxins abrin and pure nicotine that were previously disclosed.
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Federal prosecutor Phil Kearney said the toxin ricin can be extracted from castor beans.