A Florida man has truly been prosecuted in Trenton, New Jersey, after presumably boarding an Amtrak prepare with what authorities referred to as a “small arsenal” of instruments.
Jeffrey O. Kennerk, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was captured on a prepare onJan 3 with assault instruments, large-capacity ammo publications, hand weapons, silencers and a booby-trapped rifle that terminated all through his apprehension on the Trenton Transit Center, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office said on April 16.
“This defendant allegedly hauled a small arsenal of deadly weapons and ammunition through busy transit stations, and on a train filled with passengers,” Platkin said in a declaration. “He allegedly left a suitcase containing assorted weapons and ammunition – including an assault rifle – in the concourse of Newark Penn Station, where anyone could have been harmed by them. If not for the outstanding police work done in this matter, we can only imagine where this defendant and these weapons would have ended up.”
A New Jersey Transit Police police officer was tipped off to an unaccompanied black and white zebra-print bag close to the entry to the Newark prepare.
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Mugshot of Jeffrey Kennerk from a 2022 apprehension in Miami-Dade County, Florida. (Miami-Dade Corrections)
When authorities checked out the bag, they positioned a pistol with a very packed 18-round publication. Further examination uncovered an AR-style publication utterly filled with.223 ammo, and a plastic bag with 2 containers of 9mm ammo and 4 containers of.223 ammo, authorities said.
An further space assured presumably had a packed Zastava Arms AK-47-style rifle and quite a few additional utterly packed publications.
According to Platkin’s office, Kennerk briefly abandoned the bag to amass an Amtrak prepare ticket toVirginia He after that boarded the prepare in Newark nonetheless was obstructed by police on the prepare’s following drop inTrenton
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Newark Penn Station’s entrance entry. ( Donell Woodson/Getty Images)
Authorities said they positioned additional instruments and ammo upon Kennerk’s apprehension, consisting of an “AR-15-style rifle that was separated into the lower and upper receiver, multiple caches of ammunition, multiple extended magazines, and multiple handguns.”
They moreover positioned a further rifle with.300 AAC Blackout ammo, in keeping with Platkin’s office.
“The officer placed the muzzle into the suitcase pointed at the ground and attempted to remove one of the handkerchiefs to render it safe, at which time the firearm discharged without the officer engaging the trigger, indicating that the gun was allegedly booby-trapped,” the AG’s office said.
Authorities said they moreover positioned 4 silencers and hole issue ammo in each 9mm and.22 prolonged rifle qualities.
The Amtrak emblem design on a prepare at Union Station in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 2022. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/ AFP by Getty Images)
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Kennerk was prosecuted for belongings of a instrument for an unlawful perform, 4 issues of unlawful belongings of a instrument, 3 issues of unlawful belongings of an assault gun, one matter of exacerbated assault and one matter of specific people to not have instruments, that are all second-degree felony offenses.
He was moreover billed with quite a few fourth-degree felony offenses, consisting of two issues of unlawful belongings of a large-capacity ammo publication, and one matter every of unlawful belongings of hole nostril ammo, unlawful belongings of a silencer, threatening a further particular person and triggering or working the danger of in depth damage or damages.
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Fox News Digital linked to Platkin’s office and Kennerk’s lawyer,Dominic Cerrito
