A Michigan woman has been arrested in downtown South Bend on drug and gun charges.
An Indiana State Trooper saw the driver of a Yamaha motorcycle commit several moving violations in the area of Michigan and Bronson Streets.
During the stop, the trooper found that the motorcycle’s passenger had a gun and nearly two dozen individually-packaged plastic bags containing suspected meth.
When the trooper tried to identify the passenger, she allegedly gave him a false name and date of birth.
She was eventually identified as 46-year-old Christy Coons of Decatur.
Coons was arrested and taken to the St. Joseph County Jail on the charges of possession and dealing of meth, being a felon in possession of a gun, identity deception, and fraud.
The man driving the motorcycle was released got a traffic citation, but was released.