A Kansas City man has been arrested and charged for a threat involving Wichita’s water supply.
Last week the city received information from the FBI about the threat.
Friday, federal prosecutors say a 69-year-old man wanted money in exchange for helping to stop the plot against the Wichita supply and the water in three other cities.
The FBI says Manuel Garcia called the Kansas City, Missouri police tip line and said water supplies in four cities, including Wichita would be contaminated with an unknown substance.
He wanted $10,000 and immunity to locate the people behind the plot.
Investigators say he made the same call to an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms center in Washington, DC.
On October 22, seven days after the first call, the FBI says Garcia called back to Kansas City with the same threat. But this time, he said four people dressed in uniforms with Capital Plumbing logos in two vans would carry-out the water threat in Kansas City, St. Louis, Wichita and Topeka.
Garcia later confessed to making the calls. This isn’t his first time in trouble.
Court records show he also served time for making threats against the President and threatening to bomb the Kansas City courthouse in 2010.
FBI agents say they have not found any evidence the water threat was real.
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“He wanted $10,000 and immunity to locate the people behind the plot.”
Probably got paid more than that to make the b.s. up. The Feds are getting desperate to appear as if we actually need them.
That’s assuming this guy even exists to begin with.