Visitor to Cd'A hotel reports stolen guns

COEUR d'ALENE - Two rifles and a handgun were reported stolen Monday in Coeur d'Alene from a car whose owner was en route to Montana.

According to a press release, the resident of Port Townsend, Wash., parked his 2009 Chevrolet Silverado outside an inn on the 2300 block of north Fourth Street late Sunday night.

When he went to the vehicle about 8 Monday morning, the firearms, along with a cell phone and hunting knife, were gone.

Missing were a .9mm Sig Sauer pistol in a holster, a .300 Winchester, bolt-action rifle in a leather case and an AK-15.

The pistol had been in the glovebox, and the rifles, under the back seat.

The victim told police there was nothing to indicate someone had broken in. He said he may have accidentally hit the unlock button on the key fab as he was walking from the vehicle.

The missing weapons were valued at almost $3,000.

The driver said he was passing through Coeur d'Alene on his way to visit friends in Montana. He planned to sell one of the guns, and give the others to a friend.