Federal officials on Tuesday announced the arrest of a New Mexico man suspected of sending 65 hoax letters containing blackboard chalk powder to banks and government offices in October.

Special agents and postal inspectors arrested Richard Leon Goyette, 47, Monday at the airport in Albuquerque, said officials of the U.S. Attoryney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, the Dallas FBI and the Fort Worth Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Goyette appeared before a federal magistrate in Albuquerque and will be returned to Texas to face the charges.

The arrest followed the filing in Texas of criminal charges against Goyette for knowingly and intentionally conveying false and misleading information when he sent anonymous letters to Chase Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) that contained an unknown white powder later tested as calcium carbonate. The letters threatened that person breathing the chalk powder would die within 10 days.

Investigators said Goyette sent the letters postmarked in Amarillo, Texas allegedly because the government caused him to lose more than $60,000 in stock value for his shares in Washington Mutual Bank after the FDIC and OTS closed and sold the bank to J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. on Sept. 25, 2008.

Investigators were able to identify Goyette as the Chase Bank letters sender after the computers he used to e-mail OTS and FDIC in September was also used to search for locations of Chase banks and offices of FDIC and OTS.

The angry e-mails sent from computers in the University of New Mexico and in the Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque criticized and accused the two agencies of being corrupt for mishandling the case of the troubled bank.