A Florida woman obsessed with the Columbine High School massacre and the Oklahoma City bombing was arrested after her parents discovered two dozen pipe bombs in her bedroom, authorities said Friday.
The woman, Michelle Kolts, 27, was charged with 24 counts of making a destructive device with intent to harm, Chad Chronister, the sheriff of Hillsborough County, said at a news conference.
Kolts had been on the radar of authorities for more than a year, Chronister said.
A printing company had contacted his department in 2018 because Kolts had ordered “several” manifestos and “anarchist instructions,” the sheriff said, adding, “She became consumed with the Columbine and Oklahoma killings.