Woman who tried to kill victim with homemade bomb hatched plan to escape from jail with man's help: Deputies

A pistillate successful jailhouse for allegedly trying to termination different idiosyncratic with a homemade bomb hatched a program to flight with a man's help, Mississippi authorities maintain.

Christina Willis, 27, was charged with attempted execution and planting oregon placing a bomb, explosive, oregon limb of wide demolition earlier this month. A small implicit a week later, she and Mark Montgomery, 48, were some charged with conspiracy to perpetrate a crime, the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office told Law&Crime.

The lawsuit stretches backmost to earlier this summer, erstwhile deputies were called connected June 20 astir a "suspicious bundle discovered connected a vehicle" successful southwest Lafayette County, which is located successful the northbound of The Magnolia State.

"The bundle was removed by the unfortunate and secured by deputies," the sheriff's bureau said, noting that, 3 days later, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives helped investigate. Once weaponry technicians examined the bundle — according to authorities — they confirmed it "contained a live, homemade explosive device."

Investigators acceptable retired looking for leads and forensic evidence, and they developed a suspect: Willis.

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According to the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office, erstwhile officials carried retired a hunt warrant connected Aug. 4 astatine her residence connected Highway 35 South successful Panola County — Lafayette County's occidental neighbour — they recovered "evidence of bomb-making materials, homemade precocious explosive substances, firearms, and narcotics," arsenic good arsenic "another explosive device."

It is not wide what relationship, if any, Willis had with the alleged victim, nor what motive instrumentality enforcement officials judge she had successful allegedly making and planting the bomb.

Willis was arrested and placed successful the Panola County Jail earlier being transferred to the Lafayette County Detention Center — but she didn't program to enactment determination long, according to authorities.

The Lafayette County Sheriff's Office told Law&Crime its investigators were contacted by employees astatine the detention halfway connected Thursday astir "a program for an flight attempt." As they started digging, they learned much astir the plot, and believed a antheral – Montgomery – was involved.

On Thursday, Montgomery was fixed a $50,000 bond. He is being held successful the Lafayette County Detention Center and is expected to besides beryllium charged federally.

Willis could look national charges too, aft the ATF presents the lawsuit to a national expansive jury. She is being held "pending a enslaved proceeding for her archetypal charges." The circumstantial details into however she allegedly planned to flight were not released.

Lafayette County Sheriff Joey East said pursuing Willis' archetypal apprehension that helium was "very arrogant of the mode each of our local, state, and national agencies worked unneurotic during this investigation."