Teen Allegedly Threatens Judge, Others

{Harlan, Kentucky}…Michael A. Collins, who was a student at the Appalachian ChalleNGe Academy in Harlan County, has been charged with threatening to kill two federal judges and a federal prosecutor. Collins is accused of telling a counselor he planned to graduate in December, spend Christmas with his family and then begin shooting everyone involved in the prosecution of his father, John Collins, who was sentenced in October 2011 to 11 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography. Deputy U.S. Marshal Rick Kelley says there was good reason to believe Collins threatened to kill Judge David Bunning, prosecutor Jason Denny and U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Atkins. Collins told the counselor he would target police who arrested his father, the prosecutor, the judge, and his father's defense attorney, whom he felt hadn't done a good job, along with people at Limewire, which apparently was the source of child porn John Collins had gotten and which notified authorities.