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Police pulled
over a vehicle for a cracked windshield at a toll plaza on the
New Jersey side around 7:40 a.m. ET (1140 GMT) and found several
guns inside, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority
Police Department, which patrols the tunnel.
Police recovered five pistols, an AR-15 assault rifle and a
12-gauge shotgun, as well as a small amount of marijuana and a
marijuana pipe, according to the Port Authority. Some of the
guns were loaded.
John Cramsey, 50, Dean Smith, 53, and Kimberly Arendt, 29, all
from Pennsylvania, were charged with weapons possession and drug
paraphernalia charges.
"At this time, the investigation is continuing, but the agency
does not believe the incident is terrorism-related," said the
Port Authority spokesman, Joseph Pentangelo.
Local news outlets, citing law enforcement sources, reported
that Cramsey told police he was driving to New York City to
rescue a young girl from a drug den.
Police also recovered several knives, extra ammunition, body
armor and a camouflage helmet from the vehicle, local media
reported.
U.S. law enforcement, including New York City's massive
counter-terrorism apparatus, has been on high alert since a
gunman killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12
in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
New York has some of the nation's strictest gun laws, including
a ban on military-style assault weapons that on Monday survived
a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.
Those weapons have sometimes been used in mass shootings,
including in Orlando and in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut,
school massacre that killed 20 children and six adults.
(Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Dan
Grebler)
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