Woman freed of gun and ammunition charges

While Griffith is going back behind bars, a young mother walked away from Keeping Unlicensed Ammunition charges and a possible jail term today. Twenty-three year old Lattiana Choc was detained in August 2008 after police found a nine millimeter pistol loaded with ten rounds of ammunition at her boyfriend’s apartment. While it’s not her home, Choc was the only one present when the apartment was searched and she was initially arraigned for both the firearm and the ammunition. But the charge for the Unlicensed Firearm was withdrawn in November after Senior Magistrate Dorothy Flowers reviewed the evidence and contended that the Firearm Ballistic officer did not check properly to ascertain if the gun was functioning. Choc’s acquittal today comes after her testimony that she had no knowledge that the weapon was in the apartment. She also told the court that she had just arrived at the apartment when the police conducted the search and found the gun and ammo wrapped in a sheet near a pillow at the foot of the bed.