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., whose full name was not made public, in accordance with Austrian law, should be admitted to a prison for mentally ill offenders, the Austrian press agency APA reported. She had evaded a previous hearing by fleeing to Mexico.

S. wrote some 120 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.

"You think you are entitled to be paid attention, and you don't shrink from committing felonies to get it," prosecutor Karin Schiffmann told the defendant.

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.

"That way, she could be close to her star, without being within the reach of US authorities," the prosecutor said.

Mexican police arrested S. in Tijuana in February.

Court-appointed psychiatrist Karin Treichl said S. had a mixed personality disorder and that there was the danger that she would commit further crimes, especially that of making threats.

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

Her lawyer argued that it was "unthinkable" that S. would have carried out her threat, and that his client had never had any direct personal contact with David Caruso.