Man living out of Jeep indicted for assault weapon, other firearms found after Wood-Ridge crash

EXCLUSIVE: A Pennsylvania man who police said was living out of his Jeep was indicted by a grand jury on charges of illegally having an assault firearm, a rifle, a shotgun and a revolver with him when the vehicle was rear-ended on a Moonachie Avenue overpass.

Jerry DeMarco

02/25/2015 7:17 p.m.

Police at the time said they discovered the guns after Michael J. Maletta (above) signed a consent form so that he could get an inventory of the Jeep’s contents before it was towed following the Nov. 6, 2013 crash.

Maletta, 47, was carrying an operable Armalite M-15 5.56 assault rifle, a Remington 870 shotgun, a .22-caliber Beeman rifle and a Taurus .357 Magnum revolver without any of the necessary permits or purchaser cards, the indictment returned in Hackensack alleges.

Maletta posted $150,000 bail and was released from the Bergen County Jail six days after his arrest.

IMAGES: Courtesy WOOD-RIDGE PD

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