KENT COUNTY, Mich. — Jeffrey Allen Klein, the man who claimed severe health complications related to his weight prevented him from going to court, has pleaded guilty to phoning in a bomb threat more than two years after the incident.
According to the Kent County Sheriff’s Department, the 44-year-old was arrested Jan. 1 for driving on a suspended license. Undersheriff Jon Hess said he was taken to the hospital and later transferred to jail.
Since the August 2012 false threat, several previous hearings have been dismissed because the 625-pound man said his weight prevented him from coming to court.
“I was upset. I admitted to police that I did a bomb threat over the phone at the Cedar Springs Mobile Home Estates,” Klein told FOX 17 in July 2014.
Klein made the threat in response to fines that were issued to him for littering and other offenses, he said.
He said he’s had much more than legal troubles in recent years, and claims he can’t function without pain killers and an oxygen tank.
“It’s no excuse for my behavior, but I’m suffering,” Klein said in July. “I’m dying in my own body.”
Undersheriff Hess said the jail is equipped to take care of Klein’s health issues. He will be sentenced in February.
