According to police officers, a man was found with a loaded gun and other weapons.
((Cnn) -The New York police are investigating whether a Queens who arrested on Wednesday had plans to carry out an attack before being persuaded and found with a gun, eight stressed magazines and other weapons, according to police officers with knowledge of the investigation.
Officers stopped Judd Sanson after they had noticed that it had been removed the license plate on the Black Ford Explorer, he rode around 10 p.m. 01:30, according to the NYPD.OFFECTS eventually found a large cache of wapons, handcuffs, nypd -sensed items andA transit west in New York City, NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey B. Maddrey told journalists on Wednesday.
Sanson, 27, was taken into custody and is now confronted with accusations of criminal possession of a weapon -a stretched firearm, criminal possession of a weapon, illegal possession of ammunition unit and a hidden license plate, NYPD told CNN in an e -Mail.
In the court on Thursday, his lawyer made a non -guilty plea and Sanson was held in custody.
During their search for Sanson's car, officers also found a Glock of 9 millimeters, 100 rounds ammunition, a stun gun, different knives, a weighted whip, an expandable stick, heavy body armor and two axes, Maddrey said.
The man reportedly had a ball secure vest with a NYPD patch on the front, as well as an Orange MTA vest, usually worn by employees in the New York City metros, according to police officers with knowledge of the investigation.A press conference on Wednesday, including Guy Fawkes Mask, who became popular by the film "V for Vendetta."
According to a statement released on Thursday, the police found an expandable baton with the words "Let me not a choice", "You Learn Today" (SIC) and "Astaghfiullah" written in Marker.In God, "the explanation states.
Sanson also told an officer, together and content: "Sorry, I take it out. There are many drunk people today," said the explanation.
Questions about motif
After the hearing on Thursday, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said that researchers would look through all Sanson's social media accounts to find out his true motives.
"When someone drives around with 11 different weapons, all this ammunition, language on the baton that sounds threatening, transit uniforms that can be used almost everywhere in our metro system or in our transit system, we have reason to worry," Katz said, "said Katz," said Katz, "Katz said.
A day before, Maddrey said "it's still too early" in the active investigation to determine whether the incident is related to terrorism.
"We want to be very thorough with this study," said Maddrey."It will be investigated by the detective agency, together with our Intel device to see what else we can learn about this arrest."
Police sources said that researchers from the intelligence department of the NYPD and the joint terrorism were brought in because of the number and species of weapons, the gun, the amount of ammunition and vests with police and transit symbols.
Researchers also investigate writings in the car and on social media, say the police sources.
"Members of this department make guns, weapon arrests, arrests for knives every day. But an arrest of this size - the amount of ammunition, nypt para bans in the car, was considerable," said Maddrey Wednesday.
New York Gov.kathy Hochul said that civil servants take the case "very seriously", but could not say whether the man is planning an attack.
"There is no tolerance for this behavior, this is criminal, and I have a self -confidence system that will be prosecuted and treated in the full extent of the law," Hochul told CNN's Laura Coateswed Wednesday Night.
"This is unacceptable in Stateophnew York, it is scary, but it is important to know that the police will be reported in this and more because we can reveal this to the public," she said.
CNN's Mark Morales and Eric Levenon have contributed to this report.
