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Assault Rifle
Cohoes, NY
Police & Fire
16 Pounds Of Weed, Illegal Gun Sales Lead To Charges Against Cohoes Man: DA
A Capital Region man busted with 16 pounds of weed who also sold multiple illegal guns to an undercover cop was arraigned Wednesday, April 29, authorities said. Bazeil Phoenix, 32, was released on bail with an electronic monitor following his court appearance, the Albany County District Attorney’s office said. Phoenix, of Cohoes, sold undercover officers an Omni Hybrid assault rifle and a loaded Glock 10mm handgun during a transaction in Albany on Dec. 14, 2025, authorities said. When state police searched Phoenix’s apartment on Delaware Avenue in Cohoes on Jan. 15, 2026, they found 16 pou…
West Chester, PA
News
West Chester Rally Arrest Leads To Bomb Discovery, Federal Guilty Plea From PA Man: DOJ
A Malvern man who brought a loaded gun and a bayonet to a rally in West Chester has pleaded guilty in federal court after police later found a stash of homemade bombs inside his garage, authorities announced Thursday, Dec. 18. Kevin Joseph Krebs, 32, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to possession of an unregistered firearm or destructive device, according to U.S. Attorney David Metcalf. Krebs was arrested by West Chester Police on June 14 after a witness reported seeing him strapping on a tactical vest and hiding a gun before walking toward the “No Kings” protest on Nor…
Middletown-Wallkill, NY
News
Armed Man Holds Up Gas Station In Wallkill, Charged As Fugitive: Police
A 20-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing multiple charges after allegedly robbing a Hudson Valley, NY gas station at gunpoint and being found with an illegally possessed assault rifle, authorities said. The incident happened in Orange County around 6:16 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 14, when Connor J. Derrick, of the Lackawanna County borough of Archbald, entered the Sunoco station at 2 Ben Gilman Way in the Town of Wallkill, New York State Police said on Friday, Aug. 15. Investigators said Derrick approached the clerk, took out a gun, and demanded cash from the register before fleeing on fo…
Baldwin, NY
News
Ghost Guns, Assault Rifle Found: Cousins Indicted In Baldwin Firearms Bust, Nassau DA Says
Two men are accused of trafficking and selling ghost guns and other firearms in Nassau County, prosecutors announced on Tuesday, Aug. 5. Rubenny Torres Duran, 29, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, and his cousin, Jose Torres Moncion, 29, of Kings County, New York, were indicted after an investigation into illegal gun sales in Freeport and Baldwin between April and May 2025, according to Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly. Both men were arraigned before Judge Helene Gugerty on multiple felony counts, including Criminal Sale of a Firearm in the First Degree, Criminal Sale of a Fire…
Toms River, NJ
Police & Fire
Toms River Woman Had Assault Rifle, High Capacity Magazine In Bedroom: Police
A 35-year-old Toms River woman was arrested and hit with numerous weapons charges on Sunday, July 20, authorities said. At 12:28 p.m., officers responded to Westfield Drive for a report of a disorderly person in possession with a weapon, Toms River police said. Britney Garbinski admitted to being in possession of several weapons and directed officers to them, police said. The firearms included a handgun stolen from North Carolina, police said. An assault style rifle and several high-capacity magazines were seized from her bedroom, police said. Garbinski was arrested at the scene and t…
Northampton Township, PA
Police & Fire
Magazine, Ammo Seized From Northampton County Teens After NJ Shooting: Prosecutor
Two juveniles from Pennsylvania were charged and detained after authorities say someone fired an assault rifle in a Warren County, NJ, neighborhood Saturday night, June 7. The incident happened around 10:45 p.m. on June 7, near Dumont Drive and Hamilton Road in Greenwich Township, after a 911 caller reported hearing gunfire, officials said. Officers from the Greenwich Township Police Department responded, but "did not find any injured parties or damaged property." During the investigation, police recovered "an assault rifle, armor piercing ammunition as well as a large capacity magazine." …
Bridgeton-Upper Deerfield, NJ
News
Bridgeton Man Brandished Assault Rifle While Driving In Wildwood: Authorities
A 21-year-old Bridgeton man was arrested and charged after he displayed an assault rifle while driving in Wildwood on Wednesday, May 21, authorities said. Wildwood police began investigating after video footage showed Ahmed Omera displaying the rifle from the driver's side window, Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey Sutherland and Wildwood Police Department Chief Joseph Murphy said. The assault-stylerifle was recovered during a search of Omera's residence at the 300 West block of Broad Street in Bridgeton on Thursday, May 22, authorities said. Omera was taken into custody and charged wi…
Roxbury-Mount Arlington, NJ
Police & Fire
Woman Who Shot Man During Roxbury Motel Robbery Learns Fate: Morris County Prosecutor
A 25-year-old Irvington resident was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday, Feb. 21, after shooting a man during a 2023 robbery in Roxbury, costing him his leg, authorities said. Auraceli Maldonado admitted to shooting Selwyn Torres at the Roxbury Motel on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, pleading guilty to robbery and aggravated assault, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Carroll, Chief of Detectives Robert McNally, and Roxbury Police Chief Matthew Holland said. Torres had planned to met with someone at the motel, authorities said. Surveillance video captured a Honda Accord with New York re…
Englewood, NJ
Police & Fire
Englewood Parking Garage Shooting Robbery: 4 Queens Men Arrested, Prosecutor Says
Four Queens, NY, men have been charged in connection with a violent armed robbery and shooting that left a 25-year-old man seriously injured in Englewood, authorities said. The suspects — identified as 26-year-old Denzil Bailey, 31-year-old Iquwann Quick, 34-year-old Dwight Stephenson, and 27-year-old Osarumwense Uzamere — were arrested following a months-long investigation led by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Englewood Police Department, Prosecutor Mark Musella announced. The incident occurred on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, when Englewood police responded to reports of a shooting o…
Middletown-Wallkill, NY
Police & Fire
Orange County Raid Nets AR-15, Sawed-Off Shotgun, 1 Arrest: Police
An Orange County man is facing felony charges after police seized multiple illegal firearms, including an AR-15 with a defaced serial number, during a raid in the town of Deerpark, authorities announced. The City of Port Jervis Police Department, in collaboration with multiple law enforcement agencies, arrested Brian Negrette, age 40, of Huguenot, a hamlet of Deerpark, on Thursday, Jan. 2, on charges of criminal possession of a weapon. He is being held pending arraignment. According to Port Jervis Police Chief William Worden, the arrest followed an investigation that led to executing a sear…
Freeport, NY
News
Man Gets 7 Years For Trafficking Illegal Firearms In Freeport
Years in prison await a man who confessed to selling illegal firearms on Long Island. Kim Lilly, age 45, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced to seven years behind bars in Nassau County Court on Wednesday, Nov. 20, after copping to criminal sale of a firearm and related charges. Prosecutors said Lilly sold 11 illegal firearms in Freeport, including an assault rifle and assault pistol, between August 2023 and January 2024. All but one were loaded and sold with accompanying ammunition. He also admitted to selling several high-capacity magazines. Lilly, who resided in Freeport befor…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Five Arrested After $7K In Ecstasy, Coke, Heroin, Meth Seized: Essex County Prosecutor
Five people were arrested after multiple raids in Hudson, Essex and Union counties last month uncovered $7,000 in illegal drugs, authorities said. The raids, which took place Wednesday, Oct. 30 and Thursday, Oct. 31, were the result of a four-month investigation and targeted individuals believed to be involved in the distribution of controlled substances, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II said. Recovered in the raids were approximately 27 grams of heroin, 20 vials of cocaine and crack cocaine, 84 Ecstasy pills, Oxycodone and Xanax pills as well as drug packaging paraphernali…
Conshohocken-Plymouth Meeting, PA
News
'Bad Bunny' Drug Bust: 3.3 Pounds Of Fentanyl, $25K Seized In PA Bust, DA Says
Five Philadelphia men were arrested for their roles in what authorities are calling the "Bad Bunny Drug Trafficking Organization," officials announced. David Arroyo, 27; Miguel Jorge-Ortiz, 35; Neil Perez, 29; and Jose Guzman, 49, all of Philadelphia, were arrested on Sept. 13, according to a Tuesday, Oct. 29 news release from the Chester County District Attorney's Office. Curtis Lake, 50, of Philadelphia, was arrested at a later date, the news release states. These arrests involved multiple law enforcement agencies executing 12 search warrants at nine different l…
Hamilton Township, NJ
News
Killer Who Aimed To 'Flood Streets' Of Trenton With Heroin Gets 17-Year Minimum In Fed Pen
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: Jerome “Righteous" Roberts will have to see his 70th birthday before he can taste freedom again. A convicted killer who aimed to "flood the streets" of Trenton with a "motherlode" of heroin, Roberts, 53, was sentenced this week to what will be a minimum of 17 years in federal prison for his role in a drug ring that once dominated the capital city. Federal jurors had convicted Roberts, of Delran, of drug conspiracy following a three-week trial in Trenton in October 2021. U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner, in turn, sentenced the Bloods gang leader to a 245-month prison sentence t…
Hamilton Township, NJ
Police & Fire
Ex-Convict Struts Through Trenton With Loaded Assault Rifle: Police
A 38-year-old ex-convict was arrested with a loaded assault rifle slung over his shoulder, authorities said. Trenton police said they found Joseph Moore walking along the 100 block of Turpin St. with the rifle and a high-capacity magazine containing 50 rounds of ammunition on Monday, June 10 at about 5:20 p.m. He was charged with several weapons offenses. As the detectives were on scene with Moore, Trenton Communications reported they had received several calls for shots fired in the area. Two spent shell casings were recovered. No persons were injured and no property was struc…
Monsey, NY
News
67 Guns, 4 Assault Rifles Turned In At Hudson Valley Gun Buyback Event
A Hudson Valley gun buyback event collected 67 guns, including four assault rifles. The annual event was held in Rockland County in Spring Valley on Thursday, June 6. During the event, sponsored by the Rockland County Sheriff's Office with the Spring Valley Police Department, the New York State Police, and the Rockland County District Attorney’s, residents were given gift cards in exchange for guns. Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said the guns collected included: Four assault rifles 29 handguns 32 rifles and shotguns Two antique or non-working guns Individuals also turned…
Bristol, PA
Police & Fire
Gunman Captured, Victims ID'd: Details Released In Hours-Long Trenton Hunt For PA Killer
Andre Gordon, the 26-year-old gunman accused of gunning down three people in Pennsylvania, was captured in Trenton after an hours-long search Saturday, March 16, authorities said. Gordon was arrested on a Trenton street near the Phillips Street home authorities initially believed he'd been barricaded in, the New York Times says citing city police. Trouble began around 8:50 a.m. when Gordon, in a car he'd carjacked in Trenton, drove to Pennsylvania and broke into Viewpoint Lane home in Falls Township, the Bucks County DA's Office said. There, he killed his 52-year-old stepmother, …
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Suspect With Assault Rifle Sought In Newark Armed Robbery (
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Police in Newark are attempting to locate a man who robbed a business with an assault rifle on Tuesday, March 5. At 10:46 p.m., a man walked into a business on Broadway and Bloomfield Place, approached the register and pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and announced a robbery, Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. The clerk went to the backroom, filled the bag with other bags, and gave them to suspect, who fled heading south on Broadway after entering the driver’s side of a dark-colored SUV, Fragé said. The suspect is described as a Black man, 6'" tall and weighing 2…
Middletown-Wallkill, NY
Police & Fire
Man Charged With Having Assault Rifle, Ammo In Hudson Valley
A Hudson Valley man was charged with having an assault rifle without serial numbers during a traffic stop by state police. Orange County resident, Joshua Ayuk, age 30, of the city of Port Jervis, was arrested on Friday, May 19, during a traffic stop by New York State Police in the village of Saugerties. According to Trooper Steven Nevel, Ayuk was driving a Toyota Camry when he was stopped for a violation of state traffic laws. While speaking with troopers, Ayuk stated that he was the Sergeant at Arms for the Red Devils Motorcycle Club and gave permission for his vehicle to be searched.&nbs…
Massapequa, NY
Police & Fire
Man Threatens Officer With Assault Rifle on Long Island, Police Say
A Long Island man is accused of threatening to harm a police officer with an assault rifle, authorities said. A Nassau County Police sergeant phoned Donald Schreiner, aged 34, of Oceanside, at 8:35 p.m. on Thursday, March 30 to follow up on a complaint Schreiner had submitted, according to police. Over the phone, Schreiner allegedly threatened to harm the officer with an assault rifle he owned. Officers then responded to Schreiner’s home and arrested him without incident. His rifle was confiscated and there were no reported injuries. Schreiner is charged with: Criminal Possessio…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Morris County Man Broke Apart Illegal Assault Rifle, Stashed It With Family: Police
A Morris County man tried to hide an illegal assault rifle from police by breaking it down and giving different parts to each of his family members, authorities said. The Washington Township Police Department received reports that a Long Valley man illegally possessed an assault rifle on Thursday, Sept. 8, the department said in a release on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Officers completed a search warrant for the home where the rifle was believed to be and found that the weapon had been broken down and hidden in the home with different family members, the police department said. The man — whose iden…
York, PA
News
Harrowing Details Released In Quadruple Maryland Murder-Suicide
Maryland State Police have released harrowing details in the quadruple murder-suicide involving two young Pennsylvania girls, their father and his alleged accomplice. The manhunt for Robert Vicosa, 41, Tia Bynam, 35, and Vicosa's daughters, Giana, 7, and Aaminah, 6, came to a tragic end on Thursday around 2:30 p.m., MSP said in a news release. Authorities had been searching for Vicosa for several days, after he drugged and sexually assaulted his ex-wife with Bynam's help, and then fled the York County home with the two girls. Pennsylvania State Police told MSP a car matching the suspect ve…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Police: Second Man Charged In Shooting Of Paterson Boy, 15, Busted Dealing Outside His House
COINCIDENCE? TIP? A Paterson man accused of shooting a 15-year-old boy nearly two years ago was caught selling drugs and carrying a loaded rifle just days after another man charged in the same shooting was captured, authorities said. Detectives watched two drug deals go down Monday before seizing Isaiah Snead, 19, during a raid of his East 38th Street home, city Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Recovered were a “semi-automatic Hungarian FEG Assault rifle with a 75-round high-capacity drum magazine loaded with 65 rounds,” along with a bag of cocaine and 100 heroin folds, Spez…
Massapequa, NY
News
Queens Man Indicted After Allegedly Aiming Assault Rifle At
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A Queens man has been indicted for allegedly pointing an assault rifle at an NYPD detective conducting surveillance as part of a narcotics investigation, authorities announced on Thursday, Nov. 5. Julian Liriano, 34, who was busted on Wednesday, Oct. 7, for pointing the assault rifle at a cop on a stakeout, was indicted on Thursday, Nov. 5, according to New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan. Liriano was arrested around 6:45 p.m., when members of the NYDETF Group T-31 were conducting surveillance as part of a short term narcotics investigation when they spotted Lirian…
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Prosecutor: South Jersey Couple Busted With 700 Heroin Folds, AK-47, $300,000 Drug Cash
A South Jersey couple with an infant were caught with 700 heroin folds, an AK-47 and nearly $300,000 in drug cash, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday night. An investigation that began in Bergen County brought Musella’s investigators to the Ewing Township home of Pedro DeJesus, 28, and Frances Perez-Arias, 22. Assisted by prosecutor’s detectives and sheriff’s officers from Mercer County and Ewing police, the investigators raided the couple’s home and conducted a court-approved search on Tuesday, Musella said. “During their search, detectives located approximately 700 glas…
Fairfield, CT
Police & Fire
Redding Man Posted Photos Holding AK-47, Threatened To Shoot Cops, Police Say
A Fairfield County man is facing multiple charges after posing with an assault rifle and making threats to law enforcement. Redding resident Greg McGuiness, 37, was arrested last week after he posted photos holding an AK-47 and making comments about shooting police officers, investigators said. The photos were sent through instant messages to a friend, who reported them to police out of concern. McGuiness has been charged with: Possession of an illegal firearm; Criminal weapon possession; Negligent storage of a firearm; Reckless endangerment; Illegal possession of an assault rifle; Threa…
Stony Point, NY
Police & Fire
Man, Woman Busted With 1,258 Envelopes Of Heroin/Fentanyl, Assault Rifle, Police Say
A man and a woman were allegedly busted with some 1,258 envelopes of heroin and an assault rifle during a search warrant by an area anti-violence task force. The arrests took place in Orange County around 5 a.m., Friday, June 5, when members of the City of Newburgh Police Department, FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force, Town of New Windsor Police Department, and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, conducted a search warrant in the basement of 87 Carson Ave., in the City of Newburgh. The search warrant was part of a recent collaborative effort by the City of Newburg…
Massapequa, NY
News
Long Island Man Sentenced For Distributing Crack Cocaine
A Long Island man will spend time in prison for his role in distributing crack cocaine and powder cocaine, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue announced. Tramaine Brown, 30, of Jamesport, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in June last year to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and powder cocaine. In January 2018, the FBI and the Suffolk County East End Drug Task Force launched an investigation into drug trafficking and gang activity on the East End of Long Island, including the Riverhead area. During that investigatio…
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Newark Man Sentenced To A Decade In Prison On Weapons Charge
A 50-year-old Newark man with an extensive history of arrests was sentenced Wednesday to ten years in federal prison for weapons offenses. As a convicted felon, Reginald Moultrie was legally barred from owning or possessing a weapon, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said in a statement. But on July 20, 2017, he was in possession of an assault rifle with a high-capacity magazine, Moultrie admitted in court. As part of a plea deal Moultrie also admitted he arranged the sale of 17 firearms between May and September 2017. His nephew, Richard Lowman, previously pleaded guilty to con…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Felon Now Behind Bars After Being Caught With Assault Rifle In Northern Westchester, Police Say
A convicted felon has been put behind bars after police say he was caught with an assault rifle in Northern Westchester. Yorktown Police say officers responded to a report of a domestic incident at an East Main Street residence on Sunday, July 7 around 6 p.m. The on-scene investigation revealed that Michael Mosher, 38, of Yorktown caused more than $1,000 in damages to a flat screen television by throwing it to the ground, police say. Mosher was also allegedly in possession of the assault rifle with high capacity magazines while having been previously convicted of a felony, according to pol…
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
Truck Driver Caught With AR-15 Assault Rifle, High-Capacity Magazines In Westchester Stop
An out-of-state truck driver looking for directions in Westchester is in trouble with the law after being busted with an assault rifle, handgun and high-capacity magazines, police said. Camron Sharod Burton, of Ocala, Florida, was arrested on Wednesday, April 10, when officers with the Eastchester Police Department were conducting a routine safety checkpoint on Labelle Road and spotted the weapons. According to police, while officers were checking the box truck to ensure it had no equipment violations and proper registration and inspection, Burton asked for directions, as he was lost. While…
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