Florida honor student arrested for pistol-whipping mom into buying her a sports car
Fort Myers, FL, United States (AHN) – An honors student i facing charges for using a stolen gun to pistol-whip, then force her mother to buy her a sports car.
On Thursday, March 24, 17-year-old Rachel Hachero called her mother from a car dealership and asked her to co-sign a loan for a vehicle. However when Rachel’s mother Linda Hachero refused the teen threatened to kill her.
Later that evening back at home Rachel confronted her mother with a 9 mm Sig Sauer handgun. She hit her mother with the gun and then pointed it at her mother’s stomach and head demanding they go back to the dealership and she co-sign for the car.
At Sutherlin Nissan with the gun in Rachel’s purse pointing at her mother the papers for the car were signed and Rachel drove away in a 2004 black Nissan 350Z.
The next day her mother opened the girl’s purse and found the gun along with drugs and related paraphernalia.
The child’s mother then contacted police but refused to press charges because of what it would mean for her daughter’s future. The teen who is a member has already been accepted to several Ivy League schools on scholarships.
However despite her mother signing a waiver of prosecution, police arrested Rachel for aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, one count of battery touch or strike and possession of a firearm by a person under the age of 18.
The gun she used in the assault on her mother was reported stolen from a Lee County Port Authority Law Enforcement officer’s home in early July 2010.
Hachero is an award-winning member of her school’s Model United Nations team who recently competed at Harvard University. The honor student is also an avid runner who competed in a Florida invitational race and placed 9th in her age group in a Race for the Cure event.
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