Whatever You Do, Don't Release Her on Her Own Recognizance

From the Associated Press:
Woman allegedly hires hit man for cheese

Associated Press
Dec. 6, 2005 10:31 AM

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Police say woman mistook a block of cheese for cocaine and tried to hire a hit man to kill four men and steal it.

Police say the 18-year-old woman was mistaken about the hit man, too. He was an undercover policeman.

She's charged with four counts of attempted murder and four more of soliciting a murder.
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Authorities say the aspiring model was in the men's house recently when she saw the white, crumbly cheese that she thought was cocaine.

Police say the undercover officer posing as a hit man gave her some non-functioning handguns, bought ammunition for her because she was too young, and accompanied her to the home under police surveillance.

People in the home gave police permission to search it. They found only the cheese.

Just to be clear...

This woman saw cheese and thought it was cocaine?

At what point do we go from criminally dangerous to needing to be institutionalized? Is there a cutoff? Because if there wasn't before, there certainly is now.