NY Man Arrested After Threatening To Poison Baby Food

A man was arrested Thursday after he claimed in an apparent Internet video hoax that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food, some with cyanide or rat poison, because he wanted to kill black and Hispanic children, prosecutors said.

Gerber Products Co. received numerous consumer complaints expressing concern about the safety of its products after people saw the videos, but the 80-year-old company and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found no evidence of tampering with the products.

Anton Dunn caused to be posted on the Internet three videos of himself in which he boasted that he had poisoned bottles of Gerber baby food and could not be caught, authorities said.

Dunn, 42, was charged with sending threats in interstate commerce and falsely claiming to have tampered with a consumer product, crimes that carry a potential penalty of 10 years in prison upon conviction.

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