TOPEKA — When an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas recently received a letter containing white powder and a handwritten note saying the powder was anthrax and the attorney was going to die, authorities knew who to talk to. John Philip Barker, Overland Park, was sentenced to a year in federal prison after sending another envelope filled with white powder to the Internal Revenue Service Center in Austin, Texas. The assistant U.S. attorney successfully prosecuted Barker in the IRS case. Barker was charged late last week for the second letter. If convicted, Barker could get another five years.
