Posted: 9/19/2009 4:06:57 PM EDT
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Moral of the story: Don't shoot your mouth off http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=929955 |
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That story amazes me. He was not even involved in the cigarettes and his "cache" is perfectly legal. A thousand rounds is 2 bricks of .22 or a case of ammo. Everyone here has more than 1k of total rounds at home. His guns all look like long arms (shotguns and rifles) His "IED's" are simply smoke bombs used for gophers/moles and shit like that. Out of all that, they charge him with 1 weapon violation. I wonder what it was.
The press was all over that story like it was a life saving bust when in fact, it was an embarrassment. |
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and a second find in Hoboken! http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=930023 |
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Sounds like maybe he was trying to scam the UC with a fake device. I guess he's finding out stupid hurts. September 19, 2009 Cortlandt man held on $1M bail YONKERS - A Cortlandt man charged with giving undercover investigators a homemade bomb was ordered held on $1 million bail Friday, one day after police raided his ranch-style home. Gary Burstell, 52, faces up to seven years in prison if convicted of the third-degree criminal possession of a weapon charge lodged against him in front of Yonkers City Court Judge Michael Martinelli. Investigators found 14 rifles, a pump-action shotgun, thousands of rounds of ammunition and fireworks, said Westchester County Assistant District Attorney Michael Curti. The raid also turned up five "suspected homemade explosive devices," according to a felony complaint. Burstell also had a .22-caliber handgun which investigators have been unable to locate, Curti said. But Kevin Kitson, Burstell's attorney, denied the devices were anything other than antiques and fireworks - noting Burstell's only prior arrest was for fireworks possession. He urged prosecutors to re-examine the devices. Kitson called the device turned over to undercover officers a "so-called bomb." "There seems to be a dispute as to the facts," he said in court. "The so-called bomb here, as I understand it, was purchased at a fireworks store 15 years ago." Kitson said that the other devices found at Burstell's Lockwood Road home were smoke bombs designed to scare off small animals and household pests. He also said that the handgun alluded to by prosecutors was an unloaded antique pistol. Burstell's arrest this week came as an offshoot of a separate cigarette tax-evasion case, during which Burstell approached undercover officers and "advised them that he was looking to negotiate the purchase of silencers for guns he had, Curti said in court. Curti said that Burstell then arranged to provide homemade bombs in exchange. On Sept. 10, Curti said Burstell did just that, and turned an alleged explosive device over to the undercover investigators. The device was then handed over to the Westchester County Bomb Squad and detonated. According to the felony complaint, the device "was made of brown cardboard with an end cap which was glued with what appeared to be epoxy or hot glue." At the end was "a pyrotechnic fuse," the complaint said. Yonkers police said Thursday that Burstell had agreed to turn over additional homemade bombs that morning, but did not show up for the arranged meeting. Police then arrested him in Yonkers. Burstell's wife, children and parents declined to comment as they left court. Kitson said he would not comment beyond his statements in the courtroom. Burstell is due back in Yonkers City Court on Sept. 24. <s_suiteid_default value="lohud"> <cobrandsitedomain value="www"> <sitedomain value="lohud"> |
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This guy gets held on 1million bail, and the terror plot guys that just got arrested got $50,000???
And the main suspect is being released, but has to wear an electronic monitoring device. Big effin deal. Wow. I am simply astounded by this. http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/22/terror.probe/index.html |
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Some updates: State Supreme Court Justice Lester Adler cut Burstell's bail in half after a bail hearing in White Plains. Burstell had been held on $1 million since he was charged last week with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony punishable by up to seven years in prison. YONKERS: Gary Burstell, a Cortlandt resident accused last week of having explosives, is due in City Court on Oct. 29. An adjournment was granted Thursday. Burstell was released from Westchester County jail Thursday after the halving of his bail to $500,000. He is charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony. His lawyer has said the explosives were smoke bombs to clear animals and glorified fireworks. |