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14-Year-Old's Mom Arrested on Gun Charges

Posted Oct 12, 07 1:32 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – A Pennsylvania woman faces multiple criminal charges after buying guns and bomb-making materials for her emotionally disturbed 14-year old son. Michele Cossey is accused of purchasing a 9mm semiautomatic rifle, a .22 rifle and handgun, and black powder for use in making grenades, CNN reports. Her son, home-schooled after withdrawing in 2006, is being charged with solicitation to commit terror.

Police are convinced the boy was planning a Columbine-style attack: A search of his room found the weapons in plain sight, along with 30 additional air rifles, knives, bomb-making recipes and a video of the Columbine incident. Police acted on a tip from a local high school student.

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Dillon Cossey, 14, is lead into the courtroom at the Montgomery County Courthouse for his hearing in Norristown, Pa. on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. Cossey was charged as a juvenile with solicitation to commit...   (Associated Press)
Michele Cossey, right and her husband Frank Cossey arrive at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. Their fourteen-year-old son Dillon Cossey was charged Friday...   (Associated Press)
Michele Cossey, right and her husband Frank Cossey arrive at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. Their fourteen-year-old son Dillon Cossey was charged Friday...   (Associated Press)
Dillon Cossey, 14, is lead in shackles into the courtroom at the Montgomery County Courthouse for his hearing in Norristown, Pa. Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. Cossey was charged as a juvenile with solicitation...   (Associated Press)
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