2 WIU students face weapons cache charges
Posted December 13, 2008 10:00 pm
MACOMB -- McDonough County authorities say two Western Illinois University students face felony charges after being found wearing homemade bulletproof vests and with a weapons cache.
Sheriff Rick VanBrooker says the discovery was made when a deputy stopped a truck for speeding.
He says 25-year-old Bryce A. Standley of Macomb and 20-year-old Nicholas R. Holik Jr. of Mount Prospect had two rifles and two loaded pistols, all with silencers. They also allegedly had night-vision goggles, gas masks and ammunition.
Both are free on bond. An attorney for Holik told a judge the men were coyote hunting and target shooting.
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