Mother who made simple mistake will not be sent to jail

Shaneen Allen, the Philadelphia mother of two facing three years in prison for mistakenly bringing her legally obtained firearm into New Jersey, will not go to jail.

Allen had been arrested last October after a traffic stop when she informed the police officer that she had a weapon in her car and presented her Pennsylvania concealed-carry permit. The prosecutor for her case, Jim McClain, initially denied Allen enrollment into New Jersey’s Pre-trial Intervention program that would have allowed her to avoid jail time as a first-time offender. This is the same program former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was allowed to enter after punching his then-fiancée in an Atlantic City casino elevator.