Man apprehended for sending live worms in letters to celebrities.

A Taiwanese man has been inactive on suspicion of causation threatening letters containing live mealworms and ceremonial cash — historically employed in rituals for the dead — to native celebrities, police same weekday.

The case was 1st rumored last month once a company received a letter addressed  to pop singer Jam Hsiao that contained a bag of creeping worms and similar letters were conjointly armoured to a widely known professional person, associate show business agent and a series eating house.
The suspect, known solely by his family Lai, was comprehended late Tuesday in Kaohsiung town, once police interviewed aquariums and bird retailers merchandising the yellow larva employed in the threat letters to trace him down.
According to the police, Lai admitted that he sent the worms and therefore the ceremonial cash to celebrities in an exceedingly bid to realize attention, as a result of he was upset that his girlfriend was prosecuted for violating trademark law.
In Taiwan, ceremonial folding money is sometimes burnt in rituals to pay relevance the deceased however it's conjointly accustomed lay a curse and build death threats.