PEORIA, Ill. – The Illinois Attorney General’s Office has indicted a Peoria-area woman after allegedly lying on an application for a Firearm Owners I.D. card.
The A.G.’s office says Ronda Frye, 51, of Edwards, is being charged with two Class-Three Felony counts of Forgery. The office says she’s pleaded not guilty, and will be back in court September 15th ahead of a possible trial about ten days later.
Frye allegedly failed to disclose a prior felony conviction on a Firearm Owners I.D. card application. That conviction, officials say, was to a felony drug charge.
“This arraignment highlights my office’s continued work to prevent gun violence in all its forms,” Attorney General Kwame Raoul said, in a news release. “Individuals who lie on their firearm owner’s identification card applications in order to obtain weapons they are not legally able to possess need to be held accountable.”
Court records also indicate she pleaded guilty earlier this year to a shooting in April of last year at a bar on Farmington Road that grazed her father in the stomach, but avoided additional jail time.
