Police track felon's gun back to Lyndora woman
A Butler County woman has been jailed on charges she bought a handgun for a multiple felon.
Six weeks after the pistol was purchased, state police by chance seized it while searching a Butler apartment for evidence of drug trafficking in 2016.
Amanda R. Brommer, 39, who has a last known address of Lyndora, faces a hearing in April in the straw buyer case. State police arrested her last month.
Police said Brommer on April 14, 2016, bought a Bond Arms Texas Defender double-barrel pocket pistol at a Washington Township gun store.
On her application, according to court documents, she denied being a drug user and claimed she was buying the gun for herself.
Troopers on May 27, 2016, went to an apartment in the 1000 block of East Jefferson Street in Butler, where they served a search warrant as part of a burglary investigation.
During the search, according to court documents, they suspected drug dealing was going on at the apartment.
Police obtained a second search warrant that allowed them to look for evidence of drug trafficking.
Among the items seized were 407 stamp bags of suspected heroin, five bags of powder cocaine, eight bags of crack cocaine, pills, a digital scale, $5,957 in currency and a Bond Arms Texas Defender pistol.
Find out more about this case in Sunday's Butler Eagle.
