Mom driving with gun in child’s safety seat, AR-15 in trunk arrested
12/12/2019 9:50 am PST
via WGN:
PEOTONE TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WGN) -- Will County sheriff's deputies arrested a woman who they said was driving around with an AR-15 in the trunk of her car.
Nicole Horton, 24, of Carbondale, was riding in a car that was stopped by deputies on Interstate 57 in Peotone Township Sunday morning.
Officers said the car smelled of marijuana and a search turned up an AR-15 in the trunk and a 9-millimeter handgun in a drawer of a booster seat a 3-year-old child was sitting in.
The AR-15 was reportedly stolen from a police car months ago in southern Illinois.
Horton was arrested and charged with one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm/ammunition, four counts of no FOID card, and one count of possession of a stolen firearm, according to police.
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