A man facing gun charges after looking for “sniper points” at Folsom High School will remain on home confinement with an ankle monitor after he is released from an inpatient psychiatric program next month, a federal judge in Sacramento ruled Friday.
Curt Taras, who was 53 at the time of his arrest last fall, has been receiving care at a Veterans Administration facility in Oregon for what his lawyers said was an acute mental health episode that led him in a state of paranoia to the high school.
His attorney, Matthew Taylor, said Taras, a civil engineer who suffered a traumatic brain injury in the Air Force and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, experienced a paranoid episode triggered by the deterioration of his marriage. In a statement to Folsom police at the time of his arrest, Taras said he was worried about students’ safety at the school and went there to check for vulnerabilities…