File under "It MUST be true; I read it in the paper!" Or maybe under " 'The Patriot' meets Alvin York ."
Pizza guy with an arsenal
Cops find slew of guns, ammo, swords in Qns.
By OREN YANIV
DIALY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Officers from the 100th Precinct show off cache of weapons found in Far Rockaway, Queens.
It was a weapons cache more likely to be found in Fallujah than Far Rockaway. Cops seized an arsenal - 26 handguns, eight rifles, two shotguns, three stun guns, boxes of ammunition and several dozen swords - in the Queens apartment of a pizza delivery man after after pulling him over for speeding, police said yesterday.
Stephen Maloney was stopped after plainclothes officers spotted him zooming down Rockaway Beach Blvd. near Beach 100th St. about 9:45p.m. Friday,
Inside his pizza delivery car, police said they found a loaded .22-caliber revolver, but no pizzas.
Maloney, 45, then told cops he had one more pistol in his apartment at Beach 92nd St. in Far Rockaway.
He gave them permission to search his home, police said.
"He was a little strange," said Lieut. Derrick Corrado.
"He was wearing camouflage and we thought that was weird."
Officers from the 100th Precinct recovered three-dozen antiquated guns along with the other weapons and 4,000 rounds of ammunition from the second-floor apartment.
Some weapons were stashed in boxes and others were strewn about in plain sight, atop the television and on tables, cops said.
When asked why he had so many weapons, Maloney told cops: "I was robbed once before, and I'm not going to be robbed again," a police source said.
The stockpile included a flintlock pistol dating back to World War I, a German mauser sniper rifle, a Civil War-era knife, daggers inscribed with swatiskas and three homemade guns. Most weapons appear operational, although only a few are modern, police said.
Cops arrested Maloney, his wife, Debra Maloney, 50, and his cousins William Schreiber, 51, and Emil Schreiber, 44, police said.
All four suspects, who live in the same apartment, were charged with numerous counts of weapons possession, and were awaiting to be arraigned yesterday, police said.
Cops were still investigating who owned each weapon, but most of the collection appeared to belong to Stephen Maloney.
"We don't believe that he was a bad guy," said Capt. Paul Piekarski.
"He likes his guns, some worth a lot of money."
But he added that Maloney, who has prior weapon-related arrests, could have sold some of his arms or even used them.
Piekarski said that he had never witnessed such an extensive arsenal in his 21 years on the force.
Aside from the fact that the Daily News ("And you can wrap fish in it!" cannot even spell it's own name ("Dialy News"), it would also have us believe that we fought WWI with "a flintlock pistol." Hey - MAYBE it's the one Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated with!
Thirty-six guns now constitutes "such an extensive arsenal" that the cop had never seen so many "in his 21 years on the force" ?? What a sheltered career - I know people with more guns than that.
Pizza guy with an arsenal
Cops find slew of guns, ammo, swords in Qns.
By OREN YANIV
DIALY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Officers from the 100th Precinct show off cache of weapons found in Far Rockaway, Queens.
It was a weapons cache more likely to be found in Fallujah than Far Rockaway. Cops seized an arsenal - 26 handguns, eight rifles, two shotguns, three stun guns, boxes of ammunition and several dozen swords - in the Queens apartment of a pizza delivery man after after pulling him over for speeding, police said yesterday.
Stephen Maloney was stopped after plainclothes officers spotted him zooming down Rockaway Beach Blvd. near Beach 100th St. about 9:45p.m. Friday,
Inside his pizza delivery car, police said they found a loaded .22-caliber revolver, but no pizzas.
Maloney, 45, then told cops he had one more pistol in his apartment at Beach 92nd St. in Far Rockaway.
He gave them permission to search his home, police said.
"He was a little strange," said Lieut. Derrick Corrado.
"He was wearing camouflage and we thought that was weird."
Officers from the 100th Precinct recovered three-dozen antiquated guns along with the other weapons and 4,000 rounds of ammunition from the second-floor apartment.
Some weapons were stashed in boxes and others were strewn about in plain sight, atop the television and on tables, cops said.
When asked why he had so many weapons, Maloney told cops: "I was robbed once before, and I'm not going to be robbed again," a police source said.
The stockpile included a flintlock pistol dating back to World War I, a German mauser sniper rifle, a Civil War-era knife, daggers inscribed with swatiskas and three homemade guns. Most weapons appear operational, although only a few are modern, police said.
Cops arrested Maloney, his wife, Debra Maloney, 50, and his cousins William Schreiber, 51, and Emil Schreiber, 44, police said.
All four suspects, who live in the same apartment, were charged with numerous counts of weapons possession, and were awaiting to be arraigned yesterday, police said.
Cops were still investigating who owned each weapon, but most of the collection appeared to belong to Stephen Maloney.
"We don't believe that he was a bad guy," said Capt. Paul Piekarski.
"He likes his guns, some worth a lot of money."
But he added that Maloney, who has prior weapon-related arrests, could have sold some of his arms or even used them.
Piekarski said that he had never witnessed such an extensive arsenal in his 21 years on the force.
Aside from the fact that the Daily News ("And you can wrap fish in it!" cannot even spell it's own name ("Dialy News"), it would also have us believe that we fought WWI with "a flintlock pistol." Hey - MAYBE it's the one Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated with!
Thirty-six guns now constitutes "such an extensive arsenal" that the cop had never seen so many "in his 21 years on the force" ?? What a sheltered career - I know people with more guns than that.
