Bomb Threat Suspect Weighing 625 Pounds is 'Logistical Problem' for Grand Rapids Court

[Keegs]

[url]http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/07/exceedingly_large_suspect_pres.html#incart_hbx#incart_best-of[/url]
[quote]GRAND RAPIDS, MI – When it comes to a man accused of making a false bomb threat at a Cedar Springs mobile home park, law enforcement officials find they have a problem. A 625-pound problem.
[b]Jeffery Allan Klein, 44, is accused of calling 911 on Aug. 25, 2012, and saying there was a bomb at the Cedar Springs Mobile Estates, set to go off in four hours.[/b] Cedar Springs Police alerted staff at the park and a search was done, revealing nothing suspicious.
Police were able to trace the owner of the phone, who then led them to Klein’s mobile home.
Cedar Springs Police Officer Michael Stahl reports that Klein confessed to making the threat because he was angry at park management for fines he had been assessed.[/quote]
[quote]Klein’s attorney, Damian Nunzio, told Leiber this week that the Kent County Fugitive Taskforce is well aware of where the defendant is, but has not come to get him.
Nunzeo said [b]the man is confined to a special bed that is 5-feet wide and would have to be moved from his home, transported by a special ambulance and taken to the 10th floor of the Kent County Courthouse via the freight elevator[/b].
Nunzio estimates the cost of moving him at between $2,000 and $3,000, and it would require the help of paramedics.
Nunzio said if his client were to be convicted, his health concerns would present a serious challenge for the Kent County Jail and the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Nunzio hopes the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office would dismiss the charges, but Assistant Prosecutor James Benison says Klein has shown he is able to get out and about when he really wants to.[/quote]
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[Zonesylvania]

tbh if it takes so much trouble they should just conduct a metaphorical kangaroo court right at his home and finish the legal proceedings up.

[JumpinJackFlash]

Maybe the whole reason why he called the threat was so somebody would move him.

Pretty clever, except for the part where he was too fat.

[c:]

Oh for goodness' sake, I live in that town. I'm not gonna say that this man is painting a bad picture of our town because it's pretty full of people no more impressive than him.