Police Discover Weapons Stockpile In The Nostrand Houses
#ESU assisted @NYPD67Pct in the execution of a search warrant yesterday. 3 under, multiple guns, fake C/Cs Great job pic.twitter.com/jXYtuwXOfs
— NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) April 20, 2016
Cops uncovered a terrifying stockpile of weapons while executing a search warrant in the Nostrand Houses this week.
Special operations officers on Tuesday stormed an apartment in the public housing complex, located at Avenue X near Bragg Street, after getting a tip about about a credit card skimming operation, authorities say.
Besides three forgery devices uncovered in the home, officers found enough weaponry to arm a militia: a loaded Ak-47 assault rifle, two Glock handguns, a 9mm Smith & Wesson, a .45-caliber Springfield, and 234 rounds of ammunition, according to the NYPD.
Police also recovered 164 illegal credit cards and $2,348 in cash.
Cops arrested three people, including an 19-year-old woman, and charged them with a laundry list of crimes, including criminal possession of a machine gun, illegal possession of loaded firearms, and criminals possession of stolen credit cards.
An NYPD Detective gave a demonstration for CBS Local, who first reported on the raid, to show how the assault rifle’s bullets can pierce steel. Watch the demonstration here.
This wasn’t the only time cops found a gun in the Nostrand Houses this week. On Thursday afternoon, two days after the raid on Avenue X, police arrested four people for gun possession at the housing complex. Officers were called to a building on Batchelder Street, near Avenue W, after receiving a report that a man pointed a gun at his roommate’s face and ordered him to leave.
Cops say the weapon was passed to four other people after the confrontation and when police arrived, they arrested a group of suspects fitting their descriptions. The weapon was recovered at the scene, according to police
A reader sent us photographs of the arrests on Thursday.
Police in the 61st Precinct, Sheepshead Bay’s station house, have reported a steep increase in the number of firearms confiscated this year. Many of those weapons were recovered during drug seizures as cops step up their effort to crack down on drug dealers during the heroin epidemic.