Brooklyn artist takeshi miyakawa arrested for 'planting false bombs'

Is "mental health detainment" in this case an involuntary psychiatric commitment? Is there law for this being used punitively to effectively put someone in jail for 30 days without regard to the criminal charges? Or is his detainment for "mental evaluation" somehow actually legitimate in the context of the charges placed against him? This has shades of the old Soviet Union practice of declaring political dissidents insane and holding them indefinitely in locked-down psychiatric hospitals without any criminal charges. Someone assuage my fears.

This reminds me a lot of what happened with the signs for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. Although it seems that the judge in this case is taking this way too far as the lamp doesn't even look remotely like a bomb. He'll likely be released and hopefully he won't be charged for the bomb squad investigation.