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Florida woman found with 24 pipe bombs pleads guilty to avoid jail, focus on mental health | |
2023-04-06 | |
![]() A Florida woman who was found with 24 homemade pipe bombs and a hit list pleaded guilty Wednesday to avoid prison, and will instead receive mental health treatment. Michelle Kolts pleaded guilty in a Tampa courtroom to reduce charges following her 2019 arrest. She was originally charged with 24 counts of making, possessing and discharging a destructive device. "Twenty-four months of community control followed by 15 years probation," prosecutor Lindsey Hodges said, Fox Tampa reported. Authorities found 24 homemade bombs in Kolts' bedroom in the home she shared with her parents in October 2019. The devices were filled with nails, screws, and pellets, along with materials to make more bombs, and books about terrorist bombings. Also found was a hit list. ![]()
No criminal record? "She's not going to suffer the stigma of a conviction on any of those counts as long as she stays crime free and abides by the terms of her probation," Kolts' attorney, Barry Taracks, said. She can live with you and your family, Barry | |
Posted by:Skidmark |
#6 24 pipe bombs? Meh. 24 guns? Throw the book at her! |
Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-04-06 22:58 |
#5 Heavy.com says her parents found the pipe bombs on her bedroom, and immediately called the police, who picked her up at work. The parents are both military, the mother being in the US Army Reserve. And finally Kolts is suffering from mental illness and is “a little bit on the autism spectrum,” according to the sheriff. It’s my understanding schizophrenia often looks like autism in the early stages, and is so diagnosed. And that the two are common co-morbidities. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2023-04-06 22:54 |
#4 Michelle's photos Some might see a different 'diagnosis'. Well, maybe not. I was thinking along Nashville lines. |
Posted by: Bobby 2023-04-06 17:11 |
#3 "24 homemade pipe bombs" As opposed to the ones you buy at Target. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2023-04-06 14:34 |
#2 Is the hit list of the names available? Maybe the hit list explains why the mentally deranged excuse was used. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2023-04-06 10:31 |