Bronx
By Geoffrey Croft
A park goer told police he found a duffle bag full of guns inside a Bronx park by Yankee Stadium, NYC Park Advocates has learned.
The man found the weapons inside Mullaly Park near Yankee Stadium around noon on Friday according to police.
Inside the bag were two Sig Sauer P228 9mm pistols and one M-4 automatic assault rifle.
The man walked across the Macombs Dam Bridge into Manhattan into NYPD housing PSA 6 and told police that he found the bag inside the park.
The guns appear to be military hardware connected to the Armory heist on Saturday at a Worcester Massachusetts army reserve center where more than a dozen military weapons were found missing after an overnight break-in. The armory's missing weapons included six M4 assault rifles, 10 pistols, and several long guns.
The FBI took possestion of the weapons according to police and are trying to determine how the weapons ended up in the Bronx.
A 34-year-old Bronx native and former Army reservist was arrested on Thursday on Long Island in connection with the weapons theft. The suspect, James Walker Morales, was out on bail on a child rape charge at the time of his arrest.
Mayor DeBlasio was a block away at Joyce Killmer park for a million tree event a half hour before the weapons discovery was made.
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