Editor's note: The Enquirer is not naming the woman to protect the identity of the domestic violence victim.

The domestic violence case involving Colerain trustee candidate Kylen Peck who was accused of choking a woman until she passed out took an unexpected turn when police arrested the woman’s mother after she said she threw Peck's guns “in the river,” documents say.

A week after the Oct. 4 attack, while Peck was in custody, the woman’s mother went to the “handicap bus” Peck had converted into a camper and took the assault-style rifle and shotgun stored inside, according to a police report.

She told police she then “threw them in the river,” the report says. She said she took the guns because she expected Peck to be released from jail the next day.

Police charged the Colerain Township woman with theft, but a grand jury this week declined to indict her on felony charges.

Here's how police say it unfolded:

On Oct. 11, Colerain Township police went to the home where Peck's converted bus was parked to confiscate the guns. He had pleaded guilty that day to domestic violence charges and was sentenced to the seven days he’d already spent in jail, and the remaining 173 days were suspended. Municipal Judge Tyrone Yates ordered the guns to be forfeited and destroyed.

According to the report, an officer searched for the guns and determined they were missing.

The woman who was eventually arrested drove up, and after initially claiming she didn’t know what happened to the guns, said: “Fine. You want to know the truth? I took the guns yesterday.”

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She said she threw them into the Miami River, the report says, because she didn’t want police to find guns in her vehicle if she was pulled over.

She was taken to the Colerain Township Police Department, then the county jail. She was released on Oct. 12, court records show.

Two days later, on Oct. 14, a police report says she tried to turn in the guns at the Hamilton County sheriff’s District 1 office, near Colerain Township.

She asked a sergeant not to call Colerain police "and asked if he could take the guns and keep it a secret," the report says.

"She even asked specifically that he not put anything out on the radio so Colerain officers could not hear it," the report says.

The sergeant contacted Colerain police, and when officers arrived, the woman told them the guns were in her vehicle's trunk.

"(She) wanted to know if she did anything wrong and asked if 'this was OK,' " the report says.

An officer explained that lying to police, misleading them in an investigation and trying to impede officers from confiscating the guns "was not OK," according to the report.

The woman then responded that "she had no idea what he was talking about," the report says.

Police confiscated the guns.

The woman did not return messages Friday seeking comment.