Man who made firebomb on wheels learns fate after plowing into neighbor’s home amid meth rampage

A Montana man who ‘firebombed’ his neighbor’s home while high on meth was ordered 110 years in prison for attempted murder. 

Paul Ailport, 65, drove his flaming pickup truck – rigged with a 300 pound steal beam and a 228-shot ‘triple cannon’ firework – into his neighbor’s home just after 9:15am on November 10, 2023. 

He had been awake for three days straight on a drug-fueled bender, according to neighbors.  

The crash set the house ablaze and the beam catapulted into the Pablo property’s bathroom – barely missing the head of Anna Schiele, who was 19 years old at the time, who was stepping into the shower when the chaos erupted. 

Anna’s boyfriend and her parents Ron and Annette Schiele jumped into action and pulled her out of the room as she was becoming engulfed by the fire. 

After everyone rushed outside for safety, Ron ripped Ailport – who was bloodied and battered – out of the charred makeshift bomb, leaving his two prosthetic legs stuck in the vehicle. 

‘That day that I pulled him out of the burning vehicle he wanted us to shoot him. He didn’t plan on living through it,’ Ron told DailyMail.com.

Court records also reveal that Ailport ‘stated that they should have let him die in the fire,’ the Cowboy State Daily reported. 

The incident was an intentional attempt at harming the family, witness accounts and court evidence suggests. 

Dramatic video captured the horrific scene – Ailport’s fiery vehicle speeding across the Schiele’s lawn before the nearly-fatal crash. 

A post-collision recording shows firemen hosing down the truck as fire shoots straight up and black smoke fills the air. 

In December 2024, Ailport entered an Alford plea deal, meaning he maintains his innocence but faces the same consequences as if he pleaded guilty. 

The fire starter was finally given his sentence by a state judge on February 13. He was given 100 years at Montana State Prison for attempted murder and an extra 10 years for ‘weapons enhancement.’ 

‘We think the judge’s ruling was fair and just, and we’re glad that we’ve seen justice,’ Ron told DailyMail.com.

‘I was hoping that the day in court would go as it did, so he wouldn’t take the easy way out and he had to pay for what he did to us.

‘Having your house firebombed – well, it was a long year. The day that it happened, of course it was traumatic, but the rebuilding the year after is probably just as bad. And we’re glad it’s finally over.’ 

Ron and other residents of the area told the Cowboy State Daily that Ailport had been tormenting the neighborhood for at least a year-and-a-half before plowing into Ron’s house. 

Ailport was already facing charges including criminal endangerment and possession of dangerous drugs for allegedly firing a gun towards a neighbor’s property with high, the Lake County Leader reported.  

He once asked a neighbor which bedroom Ron slept in because he was planning on packing up his truck with gas and propane to ‘blow them up and kill them all,’ according to court documents obtained by the Cowboy State Daily. 

Ron had even filed a restraining order against his estranged neighbor, but it did nothing to de-escalate their feud.

‘A lot of sleepless nights,’ he told the outlet. ‘Every little sound. Is that him? Is he coming here now? At two in the morning. 

Neighbors noticed a pattern of Ailport’s psychotic behavior – including firing gunshots, driving over other people’s lawns and making violent threats – and blamed it on his meth consumption.

Despite reporting various strange incidents to the police, Ron said authorities did not take proper action until it was too late. 

‘It’s just mind blowing that they couldn’t do anything prior to, basically waiting until the incident happens, hoping that everybody lives through it, and then they’ll do something about it,’ he told the Cowboy State Daily. 

Ailport’s wife Delfina has spoken out about her husband’s gut-wrenching actions, claiming he battles severe mental illness. 

‘That was really frightening what Paul did to them. But it just shows how mental illness just gets thrown in the back corner again like usual. That’s what’s really sad. He’s sick,’ Delfina told Cowboy State Daily.

‘Paul was one of the victims that fell through the cracks of the system, you know, of mental illness.’ 

But Ailport was seemingly obsessed with fire and violence from a young age, a poem he wrote as a child has revealed.

In 1973, The Missoulian newspaper published a poem titled The Fire written by Ailport in the eighth grade. 

According to the Cowboy State Daily, the bloodcurdling poem reads: ‘I had a little rocket which I set afire one day.

‘It cruised around and landed in some hay. It set the hay ablaze and I fell back in a daze.

‘The fire overcame me but no one heard my plea. I died that night – very sadly.’