Deputies: Mom Offered Daughter For Gun

Mom Arrested After Police Get Tip

Sarah Buduson
Reporter

KPHO

POSTED: 9:09 am EST January 14, 2010
UPDATED: 9:57 am EST January 14, 2010

MESA, Ariz. -- Authorities said a woman who offered to trade her daughter for a gun is in the custody of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, Phoenix station KPHO-TV reported.

Deputies claim Tanya Nareau, 33, offered to give to her daughter to one of the girl’s relatives in exchange for a gun.

Deputies got a tip about the offer and arrested Nareau on Tuesday.

The girl’s family members told KPHO that Nareau originally made the offer during a phone call last week.

They said Nareau unexpectedly showed up at the relative’s workplace Monday and handed him her daughter. He did not give her a gun.

It is unclear why Nareau wanted a gun, but she cannot legally buy or own a firearm because she is a convicted felon.

Nareau did explain why she wanted to give her daughter away, according to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Doug Matteson.

“She told sheriff’s deputies she felt that she couldn’t raise the daughter adequately, so she would give the daughter to someone who could,” he said.

He said the girl is now safe and will stay with her father’s family members.

Nareau is in a Maricopa County jail, charged with unlawful sale of a child and solicitation to commit possession of weapon by prohibited possessor.

LINK TO VIDEO:

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/22234612/detail.html

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 http://www.kpho.com/news/22230628/detail.html