The weapons, including 11 handguns and 27 shotguns and shotguns, were found in an open locker at Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey. Google Maps photo
The marketing director of a New Jersey hospital stored an assault rifle equipped with a high-capacity magazine along with dozens of other weapons and ammunition in a locker without keys at his workplace, police said Tuesday.
The stash was found after Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey received a call last month to warn of a bomb there, police said.
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The threat turned out to be a hoax, but a police dog involved in a security sweep from the hospital he took officers to arms, authorities said.
Including recovered weapons 11 pistols of various calibers and 27 rifles and shotgunsincluding a .45 caliber Kriss Vector semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine, which police have determined to be an assault rifle.
A 14-round high-capacity pistol magazine was also recovered, police said.
On Sunday, Secaucus police arrested marketing director Reuven Alonalayoff at Newark Liberty International Airport and charged him with possessing an assault weapon and two with possessing a high-capacity magazine, the police chief said. citizen, Dennis Miller, in a press release.
“Unsafe storage of a large stock of weapons, especially in this location, definitely creates a public safety risk,” Miller said in a statement.
In a subsequent interview, the chief said Alonalayoff was not trying to escape from authorities when he was arrested at the airport.
The chief refused to provide further details on the arrest, including how, when or why Alonalayoff had taken the guns to the hospital or what his plans were for them.
Agents of the Department ofand National Security police witnessed the arrest, the chief said.
Alonalayoff, 46, of Elmwood Park, New Jersey, was not contacted for comment.
He was released and is expected to appear in Hudson County Superior Court on Aug.22, authorities said.
It was not clear whether he had detained a lawyer.
Miller said the other weapons in the arsenal found at the hospital were legal in New Jersey, but it wasn’t clear if Alonalayoff legally owned them.
Investigations continue, he said.
“There is no threat to the public right now,” the chief added.
A call seeking comment from the hospital, a 204-bed private facility on the Hackensack River about 12 kilometers from downtown Manhattan, was not returned.
Court records show that Alonalayoff, also known as Reuven Alon and Rob Alon, was among dozens of individuals and companies named by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. last year in a federal lawsuit accusing defendants of filing fraudulent claims. for medical services. related to automobile accidents.
A lawyer representing him in the lawsuit in New York’s Eastern District did not respond to a request for comment.
Kirsten Noyes contributed to the research.
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