A woman in Bexar County, Texas, is behind bars after allegedly stealing a machine gun from a shooting range on Friday.
Sheriff’s deputies took away 25-year-old Amber Nicole Herring remanded in custody on Monday and charged with possession of a prohibited firearm/machine gun and theft of a firearm, according to San Antonio CBS affiliate KENS-TV.
LoneStar Handgun in Converse, Texas, outside of San Antonio, sent an alert Monday saying a woman walked in around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon and rented a pistol for the shooting range, according to WOAI-TV, a San Antonio NBC affiliate.
According to the report, the woman then rented a Heckler & Koch 9mm MP5 fully automatic submachine gun for use at the shooting range, but instead walked out of the store with the gun and drove away in her vehicle.
According to WOAI, the driver’s license used to rent the firearms belonged to “someone who was killed in a car fire in December 2022,” according to the store warning.
Detectives later determined that the ID card previously belonged to Herring’s late sister. According to KSAT-TV, an affiliate of ABC San Antonio.
Herring was sent to the Bexar County Jail on $30,000 bail.
