Woman Allegedly Threatened Michelle Obama

(AP)  A woman accused of telling the Secret Service she would "blow away" Michelle Obama was in federal custody Tuesday as the Obama family planned to travel to Hawaii.

Kristy Lee Roshia, 35, was charged with threatening a family member of the president and assaulting a federal agent after being arrested Saturday less than two miles from the Kailua home where the Obama family planned to stay during a holiday visit later this week.

Roshia called the Secret Service's Boston office last month and told a receptionist, "I will kill Michelle Obama" and "I will kill Marines," according to a Secret Service affidavit.

During the same call, she said she would "blow away" Michelle Obama, the document states.

A message left at the federal public defender's office in Honolulu was not immediately returned.

Roshia has a history of leaving rambling messages and sending poems, love letters and photographs of herself to the Secret Service, according to the affidavit.

As early as 2004, she told the agency that "although her mission is to assassinate the president, she has no desire to hurt him," the document states.

The affidavit said Roshia acknowledged to Secret Service agents before her arrest that she had threatened Michelle Obama.

It also says Roshia said she knew where Obama would be staying in Hawaii, and the reason she had traveled to Hawaii in September was "to protect Obama."

Roshia was also charged with lunging at a Secret Service agent, striking him in the arms and face during her arrest.

She was being held without bail pending a Wednesday detention hearing.

[ramos1129]

This woman desperately needs to be put away into a phyco ward where she can get the help she very clearly needs.

[estabwary]

She looks so "normal".
Like anyone you'd live near or see in the grocery store.

[fariborzzak]

Catch me if U can.

[P0STING_AWAY]

While I would not call her an average Repug, I would
say that she sounds like SERIOUS Tea-Bagger material ......

[apuan777]

She's probably the person who forged Obama's fake birth certificate.

[national1942]

You have to be a real nut case to CALL the Secret Service and TELL them you want to kill the President or a member of his family. Lady you're going to jail or the nut house. Either is appropriate.

[rsmik]

Where do these wackos get their traveling money? Hi, I'm nuts, one free ticket to Hawaii, please?

[cidaia]

Not sure why this is newsworthy. Don't people get nutty about wanting to kill high ranking officials like, all the time? I hope we're not going to see headlines every time someone utters some pffling thwtth

[andacar]

I'm going to try to ignore the usual idiots who leap on any kind of incident like this to attack the right or the left. Grow up people. Take your thumbs out of your mouths and stop posting on daddy's computer.

As for this lady, well, clearly she needs a large dose of thorozene and a rubber truck. "Although her mission is to assassinate the president, she has no desire to hurt him." Um, OK. And how about going to see Obama to "protect " him. From herself? When somebody's desire for attention gets this desperate and delusional, it's time to lock them up. WOW...

[BeckieBest]

Another right wing nutjob.

[rickstas]

This woman needs to be held in a rubber room.