Missing New Hampshire girl’s stepmother indicted on gun charges

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The stepmother of a lacking New Hampshire lady who vanished in 2019 at age 5 has been indicted on costs that she acquired stolen firearms, unrelated to the kid’s disappearance.

Kayla Montgomery, 31, is accused of receiving a rifle and a shotgun between Sept. 29 and Oct. 22 of 2019, realizing that they’d been stolen or believing they’d in all probability been stolen. She was just lately indicted by a Hillsborough County grand jury, WMUR-TV reported Monday.

Montgomery pleaded not responsible to the fees and has been out on bail.

She was arrested earlier this yr on costs that she lied that Concord Montgomery was residing along with her to gather welfare advantages. She additionally pleaded not responsible to these costs, and to separate perjury costs.

Authorities say Concord vanished someday in late November or early December of 2019 — however authorities didn’t know she was lacking till final fall.

Concord’s father, Adam Montgomery, pleaded not responsible to a cost that he struck Concord in July 2019, and to unrelated firearms costs.

Police are nonetheless trying to find Concord and so they have acquired tons of of suggestions. They’re providing $150,000 for info that can cause them to the lacking baby.

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