A news report was released today sharing an interesting arrest story from outside of Disney’s Magic Kingdom. It seems while a woman was about to go through the Magic Kingdom temperature checks at the Transportation Ticket Center, she decided to hide her gun in a planter, then blame her 6-year-old son.
As shared by OrlandoSentinel: Marcia Temple, 27, of Lithonia, Ga., was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed firearm in an incident on Oct. 8. Temple was accused of ditching a loaded handgun behind a planter near the Magic Kingdom’s security checkpoint, then blaming her 6-year-old son, who she said was supposed to be watching the gun.
The situation unfolded as a hospital employee who checked visitors’ temperatures at the Magic Kingdom’s Ticket and Transportation Center noticed Temple take something from her stroller and leave it behind the planters by the tents, the arrest report said.
The employee notified Disney Security, who contacted nearby Orange County Deputy Nadia Engwall. Engwall found a pink purse containing the gun behind the planter. The 9mm gun was loaded with 10 bullets, including one in the chamber.
Engwall asked Temple why she had a gun at Disney World. “I had told my son to hold it for me and stand right here” while she went to get her brother to take the purse and gun back to the car, the report quotes Temple as saying.
The deputy determined Temple didn’t have a concealed weapon permit for Florida or Georgia. Temple was arrested and also banned from Walt Disney World property. “Our rules are clear. Weapons are not allowed at our resort,” Disney spokeswoman Andrea Finger said in a statement Thursday.
