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Police seize Jewish man's arsenal and Nazi gear
Numerous charges filed against suspect in shooting incident
The New York Times
NEW YORK - Police Thursday seized a small arsenal of high-powered weapons and Nazi memorabilia from a Brooklyn man after he was found in a park Wednesday firing a pistol at a picture of his girlfriend's mother, the authorities said.
An off-duty police detective jogging Wednesday afternoon in Marine Park in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, heard the gunshots and confronted the man, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said Thursday.
The unarmed detective, Michael Danchuk, tried unsuccessfully to disarm the man, then ran out of the park and called 911 from a nearby home, Kerik said. A short time later, police officers spotted the man, Michael Kneitel, 38, leaving the park and arrested him.
A search of the man's Borough Park home and of a storage locker in Bay Ridge turned up five rifles, 15 semiautomatic pistols and thousands of rounds of ammunition, the police said. The police also found an SS uniform and a Nazi flag.
Also seized were several snapshots of Kneitel, who is Jewish, in a uniform with "Der Fuehrer" stitched on the sleeve and a ceremonial dagger slung from his belt. Police officers who searched his home also found snapshots of Kneitel's 6-month-old daughter with the SS uniform draped over her, Kerik said. In one, the baby's finger was placed on the trigger of a pistol.
Kneitel was charged with weapons possession, endangering the welfare of a child and resisting arrest.