SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department has confirmed that on Tuesday, January 29th. A woman brought a loaded gun to the Santa Maria Courthouse and was arrested.
According to the SBCSD, while attending a hearing unrelated to her in Santa Maria, Nicole Grandy-Smith was passing through a security screening station and a concealed loaded firearm was discovered inside her purse.
The gun was seized and Grandy-Smith was taken into custody for possession of a concealed firearm. She was arrested and booked into the Santa Barbara County jail for misdemeanor fire arms charges.
The case will be forwarded to the District Attorney's office. At this point it is unclear weather Grandy-Smith was aware the weapon was in her purse.
