Friday, Jun 28, 2013 | Updated 9:03 PM EDT
A New York neighborhood was evacuated after police found grenades, munitions, firearms and a tank at the home of a gun enthusiast found dead at his home this week. Jonathan Vigliotti reports.
A New York neighborhood (click here) was evacuated after police
found grenades, munitions, firearms and a tank at the home of a gun
enthusiast found dead at his home this week.
Jonathan Orser of Mahopac was found dead of a shotgun wound Tuesday night, in an apparent suicide.
Police say he had a stockpile of more
than 100 military-style rifles, grenades, low explosive powders and a
large amount of ammunition, including armor-piercing bullets. It's
unclear how many of the items were active explosives.
There was also a decommissioned tank in the backyard.
The discovery prompted
evacuations Thursday evening that continued into Friday. The bomb squad
and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives responded
and removed the explosives.
They will be transported to West Point for disposal.
June 29, 2013 11:43 AM
...“Whatever they had in there could blow the windows off my house, which, of course, scared me,” the woman said....
...and a large cache of automatic weapons, police said.
“He also had a large container of blasting caps that are very
volatile and could have set the whole house off,” Chief Johnson said.
Among the weapons were a Browning .50-caliber machine gun and a .30-caliber machine CBS 2′s John Slattery reported.
A decommissioned military tank was also discovered in the backyard, WCBS 880′s Peter Haskell reported.
Military ordinance found stored in the basement was being removed by
the 725-Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit based in Fort Drum and
transported to West Point for disposal, police said.
