Police: WIU students arrested with cache of weapons
MACOMB —
Two men were stopped for speeding early Thursday in a truck filled with loaded guns, ammunition and military-style paraphernalia, and a comparable amount of weapons was found at one of their homes, authorities said.
Bryce A. Standley, 25, of Macomb and Nicholas R. Holik, 20, of Mount Prospect were charged Thursday in McDonough County court with three counts each of aggravated unlawful use of weapons and unlawful use of weapons.
Standley and Holik, both students at Western Illinois University, were released from jail Thursday afternoon on $25,000 bond each.
Both men have Illinois Firearm Owner’s Identification cards.
A sheriff’s deputy stopped their pickup truck northwest of