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Saddle Brook sex offender charged with guns, ammo, threats

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A convicted sex offender who forced the evacuation of his Saddle Brook neighborhood last winter was indicted by a grand jury on charges of having four illegal guns and a collection of homemade pipe bombs after threatening his girlfriend’s two daughters with a rifle.

Photo Credit: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

Robert Sunday, 52, pointed a .223-caliber Ruger rifle at both “with extreme indifference to human life,” the 11-count indictment returned in Hackensack says.

Sunday also had two black powder rifles and a black powder handgun, in addition to the pipe bombs, it says.

As a convicted felon, he was prohibited from having any weapons.

Sunday has remained held on $100,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail since the March 15 incident.

Neighborhood homes were evacuated as a precaution that while the Bergen County Police Department Bomb squad spent several hours at his girlfriend’s Bell Avenue home, across the street from a Korean church.

Saddle Brook firefighters and the volunteer ambulance squad were put on standby, as well.

“We got a frantic phone call around 8 p.m. from the girlfriend saying that Sunday had a weapon and threatened her two daughters,” Police Chief Robert Kugler told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time.

Besides the guns, police seized knives, flares, “banana-type” high-capacity ammo magazines and the pipe bombs, which were found in a metal box in the basement, the chief said.

The 6-foot-1-inch, 240-pound Sunday was convicted of sexual assault and child endangerment in September 1993. Records show that he was also charged in Bergen County in 2001 with failing to register as a sex offender.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY SHERIFF

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