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.

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. 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.

Klein was charged with the crime, but when he showed up at Kent County District Court on Sept. 5, 2012, he fell ill outside the courthouse and had to be taken to a nearby hospital.

When he showed up at court again a week later, he was told he was charged with making a false bomb threat, a crime that normally carries a four-year maximum prison penalty. But because he would have four felony convictions on his record, Klein would face a maximum of 15 years in prison as a habitual offender.

After he was told he would be remanded to jail, Klein again fell ill and was taken by ambulance from the courthouse.

In the two years since he was charged, Klein has missed numerous hearings in Kent County Circuit Court before Judge Dennis Leiber. This led to the court issuing a warrant for Klein’s arrest.

Klein has since moved to southeast Grand Rapids, but says he now weighs 625 pounds, is bed-ridden and cannot make it to court. In letters to the court, Klein includes notations from a doctor documenting a variety of obesity-related ailments including diabetes, back pain and COPD.

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 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.

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.

Klein was able to move from Cedar Springs to Grand Rapids and in November, he was cited by Grand Rapids Police for missing or defective equipment on his vehicle. That citation lists Klein’s weight as 540 pounds.

“We take this offense seriously,” Benison said of the bomb threat. The prosecution has offered Klein a chance to plead as charged and the supplemental sentencing as a repeat offender would be dismissed.

On Tuesday, July 29, Leiber told the lawyers they have to figure out a way to resolve this case and gave them until Friday to do so.

“This case is exceeding old and involves a defendant who is exceedingly large,” Leiber said of the 2012 case. “This simply cannot continue.”

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