Rockville’s Collin McKenzie-Gude, the young man who pleaded guilty last year to possessing bomb-making chemicals, was sentenced to five years in prison today, the Post is reporting. Among other allegations against McKenzie-Gude, prosecutors alleged the chemicals, an arsenal of firearms and a map of Camp David found among his possessions were part of a planned attempt to assassinate President Barack Obama. Today’s sentence amounts to 61 months in prison (minus the 17 months McKenzie-Gude…

The Associated Press reports that Bethesda teenager Collin McKenzie-Gude has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempted carjacking. McKenzie-Gude was arrested last year and charged with a number of offenses, including making and exploding pipe bombs and illegally possessing firearms. Some of those charges were later dropped, but McKenzie-Gude is still facing trial for possessing an unregistered explosive device and production of false identification documents. Among the items seized from McKenzie-Gude’s home before his…

We’ve been following the case of Collin McKenzie-Gude, 18, of Bethesda since his arrest last week on charges of making and exploding pipe bombs and illegally possessing firearms. At first glance, the circumstantial evidence that’s been piling up paints a pretty weird picture. Here’s what’s happened so far: On Tuesday, July 29, Montgomery County investigators acted on a tip from a concerned citizen and searched the Gude family home on the 6300 block of Rockhurst…