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Bogota cops find arms cache
Thursday, May 1, 2003
By RAGHURAM VADAREVU
STAFF WRITER
BOGOTA - Police arrested four men and seized a cache of high-powered weapons, bulletproof vests, and nearly 1,000 rounds of hollow-point "cop killer" bullets from a Queen Anne Road apartment.
Investigators were not sure what the arsenal was for, but they suspect at least two of those arrested had pulled off, or were planning, large-scale robberies. Among the guns and ammunition were police scanners and chloroform, they said.
"I think we definitely got in the middle of something big," Detective Jimmy Sepp said Wednesday. "You don't have rifles and bulletproof vests unless you're planning on doing something with them."
Police arrested tenants Kishan Cannon, 25, and Malcolm Mottley, 27, on various drug and weapons charges after they were called to the apartment Tuesday on a report of a shooting. They were searching Wednesday for a third man who apparently lives at the apartment, although Sepp declined to identify him.
Early Tuesday, a first-floor resident called police after hearing a gunshot from the apartment above. Cannon told the responding officers two men had forced their way in, beat him and his girlfriend, then fired at him with a black 9mm handgun, Sepp said.
The bullet just missed Cannon, traveling through his baggy black sweat pants and gray T-shirt - leaving holes the size of dimes - before lodging in a wall, the detective said.
Neither Cannon nor his girlfriend had any visible marks of an assault, Sepp said.
Sgt. Danny Maye and Officers Robert Piterski and Regina Tasca questioned people outside the building, which led to several arrests.
One of the suspects, 25-year-old Jeffrey Montgomery of Englewood, had walked up and asked the officers what was happening, Sepp said. The officers also questioned Lawrence Thomas, 26, of Teaneck, who was standing at a pay phone outside a nearby tavern on Queen Anne Road, he said.
Moments later, Mottley approached police and told them that he had jumped out of his second-story bedroom window and hid in the bushes after he heard the gunshot in the apartment he shares with Cannon.
The officers took Mottley, Thomas, Montgomery, Cannon, and three witnesses to the police station for questioning.
"Of the seven people we interviewed, we got seven different stories," Sepp said.
One of those accounts led investigators to a Volkswagen Jetta parked on nearby Walnut Avenue. Inside, they found black ski masks, black gloves, 40 bags of marijuana, and $655 cash, Sepp said. Thomas, Montgomery, and an unidentified suspect allegedly borrowed the vehicle Monday night from Thomas' girlfriend, he said.
Because Mottley's name is on the lease, Sepp and Detective Timothy Geipel asked him whether they could search the apartment for evidence from the shooting. But Mottley refused, Sepp said, so the detectives obtained a search warrant.
In Mottley's room, Sepp said, they found a shotgun, a high-velocity rifle, and an automatic assault weapon loaded with at least 100 rounds of illegal hollow-point bullets, which expand on impact. They also found the bulletproof vests, scanners, and a bottle of chloroform, an anesthetic used to knock people unconscious, in the apartment, he said.
Cannon, Mottley, Montgomery, and Thomas were charged with various drug offenses, including possession of marijuana and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute the drug, Sepp said.
Mottley also was charged with weapons possession because the guns were found in his room, he said. And Cannon was charged with illegal possession of police scanners.
The four men were being held on $50,000 bail each at the Bergen County Jail, Sepp said. Additional charges were expected as the investigation continues, he said.
Among the details detectives first must sort out, Sepp said, is who pulled the trigger in the Tuesday morning shooting. They also had not yet found the gun, he said.
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Bogota cops find arms cache
Thursday, May 1, 2003
By RAGHURAM VADAREVU
STAFF WRITER
BOGOTA - Police arrested four men and seized a cache of high-powered weapons, bulletproof vests, and nearly 1,000 rounds of hollow-point "cop killer" bullets from a Queen Anne Road apartment.
Investigators were not sure what the arsenal was for, but they suspect at least two of those arrested had pulled off, or were planning, large-scale robberies. Among the guns and ammunition were police scanners and chloroform, they said.
"I think we definitely got in the middle of something big," Detective Jimmy Sepp said Wednesday. "You don't have rifles and bulletproof vests unless you're planning on doing something with them."
Police arrested tenants Kishan Cannon, 25, and Malcolm Mottley, 27, on various drug and weapons charges after they were called to the apartment Tuesday on a report of a shooting. They were searching Wednesday for a third man who apparently lives at the apartment, although Sepp declined to identify him.
Early Tuesday, a first-floor resident called police after hearing a gunshot from the apartment above. Cannon told the responding officers two men had forced their way in, beat him and his girlfriend, then fired at him with a black 9mm handgun, Sepp said.
The bullet just missed Cannon, traveling through his baggy black sweat pants and gray T-shirt - leaving holes the size of dimes - before lodging in a wall, the detective said.
Neither Cannon nor his girlfriend had any visible marks of an assault, Sepp said.
Sgt. Danny Maye and Officers Robert Piterski and Regina Tasca questioned people outside the building, which led to several arrests.
One of the suspects, 25-year-old Jeffrey Montgomery of Englewood, had walked up and asked the officers what was happening, Sepp said. The officers also questioned Lawrence Thomas, 26, of Teaneck, who was standing at a pay phone outside a nearby tavern on Queen Anne Road, he said.
Moments later, Mottley approached police and told them that he had jumped out of his second-story bedroom window and hid in the bushes after he heard the gunshot in the apartment he shares with Cannon.
The officers took Mottley, Thomas, Montgomery, Cannon, and three witnesses to the police station for questioning.
"Of the seven people we interviewed, we got seven different stories," Sepp said.
One of those accounts led investigators to a Volkswagen Jetta parked on nearby Walnut Avenue. Inside, they found black ski masks, black gloves, 40 bags of marijuana, and $655 cash, Sepp said. Thomas, Montgomery, and an unidentified suspect allegedly borrowed the vehicle Monday night from Thomas' girlfriend, he said.
Because Mottley's name is on the lease, Sepp and Detective Timothy Geipel asked him whether they could search the apartment for evidence from the shooting. But Mottley refused, Sepp said, so the detectives obtained a search warrant.
In Mottley's room, Sepp said, they found a shotgun, a high-velocity rifle, and an automatic assault weapon loaded with at least 100 rounds of illegal hollow-point bullets, which expand on impact. They also found the bulletproof vests, scanners, and a bottle of chloroform, an anesthetic used to knock people unconscious, in the apartment, he said.
Cannon, Mottley, Montgomery, and Thomas were charged with various drug offenses, including possession of marijuana and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute the drug, Sepp said.
Mottley also was charged with weapons possession because the guns were found in his room, he said. And Cannon was charged with illegal possession of police scanners.
The four men were being held on $50,000 bail each at the Bergen County Jail, Sepp said. Additional charges were expected as the investigation continues, he said.
Among the details detectives first must sort out, Sepp said, is who pulled the trigger in the Tuesday morning shooting. They also had not yet found the gun, he said.
- Hollowpoints are illegal? 
