Following a traffic stop, former NY State Senate candidate Gia Arnold and her boyfriend were busted for violating the very same gun control law she campaigned against
26-year-old Gia Arnold, the mother of three, and her 18-year-old boyfriend were busted near Niagara Falls on Wednesday when cops stopped her for failing to signal a turn and found an AR-15, a handgun, a knife and a ski mask in her car. They ran afoul of violating the very same gun control law she campaigned against as a candidate for the NY State Senate.
Gia, a pro-gun activist, was the Tea Party candidate in 2014 for a State Senate seat. She campaigned to repeal New York’s ban of assault rifles, but lost out to another candidate.
Gia and her teen boyfriend don’t pass the smell test here. An AR-15, a handgun, a knife and a ski mask in her car? Call me overly suspicious, but it looks to me like they were on the way to commit a violent crime.
FORMER NEW YORK STATE SENATE TEA PARTY CANDIDATE ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF AR-15
Gia Arnold, a 26-year-old former candidate for the New York State Senate, was arrested for illegal possession of an assault weapon
By Christopher Brennan | New York Daily News | February 13, 2016
A former New York State Senate candidate has been arrested for illegally possessing an assault weapon.
Gia Arnold, 26, and her boyfriend Halim Johnson, 18, were taken into custody on Wednesday night in Niagara Falls after police found an AR-15 rifle in her car along with a handgun, knife and ski mask.
She was originally pulled over around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday for failing to use her turn signal, but weapons were discovered when an officer saw a magazine clip in her passenger’s seat, according to the Buffalo News.
The front of her Pontiac Vibe was actually locked and loaded with deadly weapons, according to police, who said that she was keeping the AR-15 between her seat and the driver’s door, and the handgun was in a cup holder.
The Tea Party-approved mother of three had previously run for the upper house of New York’s legislature in 2014 in a district along Lake Ontario between Rochester and the Canadian border.
Part of the then-24-year-old’s platform included repealing the assault weapons measure under which she is now being prosecuted, the SAFE Act.
The law restricts ownership on a long list of AR-15 varieties, as well as other semiautomatic guns with detachable magainzes that have military characteristics such as folding or detachable stocks. Owners of assault weapons must register their firearms with the State Police.
She briefly dropped out of the race after admitting that she had an extramarital affair and left her husband, but re-entered and was defeated by Robert G. Ortt.
A Rally.org page to raise funds for Arnold and her boyfriend says that this week’s traffic stop was unconstitutional also alleges racial profiling against Johnson, who is black.
The page, which has raised more than $2,400, said that officers accused the teen of being a drug dealer and could not come up with a reason why they were pulled over.
Jail records showed that as of Friday night Arnold had bonded out, but Johnson had not.
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