Weapons stolen from Worcester armory found by homeless man near Yankee Stadium
Three of the 16 military weapons stolen from a U.S. Army Reserve center in Worcester were found by a homeless man in a park across from Yankee Stadium on Friday morning.
NYPD spokesman Sgt. Lee Jones told Boston.com that the 51-year-old man was collecting bottles and cans in the Bronx’s Mullaly Park when he found the firearms — one semi-automatic assault rifle and two handguns — in a duffel bag. The man then called police and turned the weapons over to the responding officers.
The New York Postreported that, per the FBI, they were three of the 16 guns, including six M-4 rifles and 10 Sig Sauer M11 9mm pistols, stolen just after midnight last Sunday from the Lincoln W. Stoddard Army Reserve Center.
Jones told Boston.com that the NYPD’s investigation is ongoing.
James Walker Morales, a 34-year-old Bronx native and former Army reservist, was arrested Thursday in Long Island on theft and weapons charges, after he allegedly broke into the armory’s weapons vault by cutting a hole through its ceiling with power tools.
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