Connect with us

News

NYPD Finds Submerged Weapons Cache in Jamaica Bay

Published

on

Someone is throwing guns — big ones, and a number of them — into Jamaica Bay.

The NYPD is working to unravel the mystery after a concerned New Yorker tipped off police to the submerged cache.

The department says divers with the emergency response detectives’ unit of the NYPD Special Operations team went into the water and recovered the guns. There appeared to be at least a dozen, including long guns.

No details on who alerted police — or who may have dumped the weapons — were immediately available.

The NYPD shared photos of the recovered guns, which did not appear to have sustained significant damage.

Advertisement


Handout

The NYPD recovered these long guns.

gun cache jamaica bay 2


Handout

These guns were also found in the water.

The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

It wasn’t immediately clear where in the bay the weapons were found.

Jamaica Bay is an 18,000-acre wetland estuary surrounded by the Rockaway Peninsula to the South, Brooklyn to the West, and Queens to the East. JFK abuts the bay on the northeastern side. Comprising an area almost equal to that of Manhattan, the bay consists of numerous islands, a labyrinth of waterways, meadowlands, and two freshwater ponds.

Advertisement

Source: NBC New York

Follow us on Google News to get the latest Updates

Trending