Beecher woman allegedly caught with gun in courthouse

A Beecher woman allegedly took a loaded handgun into the Kankakee County Courthouse Friday morning. According to a press release, sheriff’s deputies assigned to courthouse security allegedly found a loaded handgun in a woman’s purse as she was going through the routine security check to enter the courthouse. Deputies immediately secured the firearm that had a full magazine and a round in the chamber. The release says the woman also had two additional loaded magazines. The woman, identified as 40-year-old Rachel E. Kane-Coffman of Beecher, who is a valid Illinois Concealed Carry License holder was taken into custody without incident. She’s been charged with carrying a concealed firearm into a court building and carrying and possessing a firearm in public.