Man arrested for openly carrying assault rifl e
BY COLIN MIXSON
Cops cuffed a Bedford-Stuyvesant
man after police allegedly
spotted him carrying luggage
with an assault rifl e sticking
out of it on Halsey Street.
A plainclothes offi cer spotted
the suspect running with
the bag, which had a semiautomatic
AR-15 assault rifl e
protruding from it, between
Marcy and Nostrand avenues
on March 1 at 10:55 pm, according
to court documents.
And when the offi cer announced
himself as a cop, the
suspect allegedly whipped out
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his rifl e, ditched his luggage,
and fl ed, but police gave chase
and subsequently apprehended
him, according to a law-enforcement
source.
Offi cers also discovered several
magazines loaded with 19
rounds of .556-caliber ammunition,
along with more than
70 spare rounds of various calibers,
on the suspect after they
caught up with him, court documents
show.
The man told police that he
grabbed the assault rifl e and
ammunition from a friend’s
house after some guys jumped
him while bringing weed to his
girlfriend, and that he intended
to track down and shoot the men
who attacked him, according to
a law-enforcement source.
Prosecutors slapped the suspect
with a top charge of criminal
possession of a weapon in
the second degree at his March
2 arraignment, which could
land him in prison for up to 15
years if convicted, according to
a spokesman for District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez, who would
not comment regarding any
potential attempted-murder
charges the man may face.
GUN BUST: Cops seized this semi-automatic assault rifl e after spotting
it sticking out of luggage carried by a Bedford-Stuyvesant man.
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