WASHINGTON 鈥斅燭he father of a 3-year-old preschooler, whose backpack contained a loaded semi-automatic pistol in Moten Elementary School Tuesday, will appear in D.C. Superior Court Thursday morning.
Anthony E. Chiles is charged with carrying a pistol without a license.
In a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors said Chiles dropped his son at school, Tuesday, leaving him with a school security officer.
When the boy was unable to tell the officer his name, the officer looked in the boy’s backpack for identification, and discovered a loaded Glock 17, 9mm semiautomatic pistol in the bag, with 15 bullets, including one in the chamber, according to .
Chile’s attorney told Magistrate Judge Renee Raymond the boy did not stay with his client the night before, but had stayed with his grandmother and another adult.
Prosecutors said Chiles was a danger, and should be held without bond.
With a 2007 felony conviction for cocaine possession, it would be illegal for Chiles to own a gun in the District.
According to the, Raymond called the prosecution’s evidence “ridiculously slim,” but ordered Chiles held in jail until Thursday’s hearing.
The school’s principal, Mireille Lopez-Humes, sent a letter to parents, informing them of the incident.
“At no time was there an immediate threat to the school,” said Lopez-Humes. “All students and staff were safe.”
