Constabulary: Rattled
You have to admire the quiet, understated way in which Hoboken police dealt with reports that a man was brandishing a gun on his front stoop.
After the man was arrested, Hoboken police and the Jersey City police Emergency Services Unit searched the man’s house and back yard, Fitzsimmons said.
They found “a number of rifles and shotguns,” Fitzsimmons said, adding that as many as 30 were found in an initial search. “The search continues at the moment,” he said.
“There were a few hand grenades that had no powder in them, no pin,” Fitzsimmons said. The discovery of the grenades and several vintage weapons led police to believe that the man may be a collector.
Police evacuated the houses on either side of the gunman’s home as a precaution, but Fitzsimmons said it did not appear that neighbors were in immediate danger. Police officers closed the block to vehicle and foot traffic and notified nearby schools, including the Hoboken Charter School at 4th and Garden streets, the Brandt Middle School at 9th and Garden streets and Demarest High School, at 4th Street and Bloomfield Avenue, Dawn Zimmer, the city’s acting mayor, said Friday.
Neighbors and area merchants said the incident left them rattled.
Sometimes it seems as though cops just like the way they do things.