US mother charged with buying son weapons

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NEW YORK (AFP) — The mother of a US teen was charged Friday with buying weapons for the boy, who was arrested with arms at his home which a high school said may have been intended for a Columbine-style shooting.

Michele Cossey, 46, was charged in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with "unlawful transfer of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child," Joseph Lawrence, deputy police chief in Plymouth, told AFP.

She was not accused of helping the boy, 14, plot an attack, he said.

Police in Montgomery seized a semi-automatic rifle and several air-powered guns at the home of the teenager, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor said Thursday. They also found a bomb-making book.

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