Vienna - An Austrian woman who stalked David Caruso, the lead actor in the television series CSI Miami, was convicted Tuesday of making dangerous threats and was sentenced to seven months in prison. The court in Innsbruck also ruled that 41-year-old Heidi S., should be admitted to a prison for mentally abnormal offenders, Austrian press agency APA reported. She had evaded a previous hearing by fleeing to Mexico.

Her full name was not made public, in accordance with Austrian law.

S. wrote some 100 letters to the US actor, who plays police investigator Horatio Caine in the popular series. When her requests for autographs were not answered, she threatened to kill not only Caruso, but also one of his co-stars.

"I am going to kill you and your ugly Latina bitch," S. wrote in a letter that she posted in Miami.

The stalker did not show up for her first court hearing in Austria in 2007. Last year, she fled to Mexico to evade another hearing scheduled for April 2008.

Mexican police arrested her in Tijuana in February.

The "fan", who has since been extradited to Austria, has not yet decided to appeal the sentence.

A court-appointed psychiatrist has found that Heidi S. has a serious personality disorder. (dpa)