{"id":502629,"date":"2026-10-20T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502629\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:38:07","slug":"valley-rep-jim-costa-received-suspicious-letter-with-white-powder-office-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502629\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley Rep. Jim Costa received suspicious letter with white powder, office confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Valley Rep. Jim Costa received a suspicious letter containing a white powder that is part of a nationwide investigation, according to his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The letter was sent to his Visalia office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Costa thanked the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and local law enforcement for acting quickly and keeping both him and his staff safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/story\/feds-investigating-letters-suspicious-substances-sent-multiple-congressional-offices\/19940904\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feds investigating letters with &#8216;suspicious substances&#8217; sent to multiple congressional offices<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The letter is a part of an investigation involving the FBI of &#8220;multiple letters containing suspicious substances that were mailed to various addresses nationwide, including multiple Congressional offices,&#8221; according to a notice sent to Senate staff and described to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Preliminary information suggested there were over 100 letters circulating in the U.S. mail system that apparently contain white powder, law enforcement sources told ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;No matter the circumstance, we remain committed to serving California&#8217;s 21st Congressional District,&#8221; Costa said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">It is not known if any other Valley politicians received the letters.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Valley Rep. Jim Costa received a suspicious letter containing a white powder that is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[194574,344,112,114,113,15716,4590,194573,294],"class_list":["post-502629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-194574","tag-fbi-investigation","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jim-costa","tag-politicians","tag-suspicious-letter","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}