According to his father, 18-year old Elijah Wallace, “who told police he sent an anthrax-laced letter to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, is a compulsive liar who has been treated in a state psychiatric hospital,” The Washington Post reports.

Wallace “made the claim when he was arrested for breaking into a vacant home Friday. Police found him hiding in a closet with a gun and two knives.”

‘He’s telling a story that is a sensational story to, I think, feel important,’ the teen’s father, Eric Wallace, said Saturday. ‘I don’t think there’s any chance any anthrax was involved.’

Wallace said his son was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism, when he was a child.

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