Cops investigating bomb threat in New Jersey hospital find more than three dozen weapons
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Cops investigating bomb threat in New Jersey hospital find more than three dozen weapons, including 27 rifles, in worker’s unlocked closet
- Reuven Alonalayoff, 46, the marketing director at Hudson Regional Hospital, was taken into custody at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday by Homeland Security Investigations
- He was charged with possession of an assault firearm and two counts of possession of a high-capacity magazine
- Officials said it was unclear what Alonalayoff was doing at the airport
- They were investigating how Alonalayoff was able to bring all the firearms into the hospital and how long they were hidden inside his office
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The marketing director at at New Jersey hospital was arrested at Newark International Airport on Sunday after police discovered more than three dozen firearms, including 27 rifles, in an unlocked closet in his office while they were there investigating a bomb threat.
Reuven Alonalayoff, 46, an employee at Hudson Regional Hospital, was taken into custody on Sunday by Homeland Security Investigations.
He was charged with possession of an assault firearm and two counts of possession of a high-capacity magazine.
Officials said it was unclear what Alonalayoff, of Elmwood Park, NJ, was doing at the airport.
Reuven Alonalayoff, 46, was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday by Homeland Security Investigations. Officials say it’s unclear what he was doing at the airport. He was charged with possession of an assault firearm and two counts of possession of a high-capacity magazine
On July 18, just after 3 p.m., Secaucus Police were called to the acute care facility located on the Hackensack River in Secaucus, New Jersey, regarding a bomb threat. The bomb threat ended up being a hoax, but one of the bomb-sniffing dogs picked up a scent and led officials to an unlocked closet in Alonalayoff’s office.
Inside was massive cache of firearms: Seven rifles and shotguns, 11 handguns, a .45-caliber semi-automatic Kriss Vector rifle with a high-capacity magazine and 14 rounds of high-capacity ammunition.
Alonalayoff worked as the marketing director at Hudson Regional Hospital, an acute-care facility located in Secaucus, New Jersey
Officials are investigating how Alonalayoff was able to bring all the firearms into the hospital and how long they were hidden inside his office.
Secaucus Police Chief Dennis Miller said ‘the unsecured storage of a large cache of weaponry, especially in this location, certainly creates a risk to public safety, and said he was ‘thankful this situation was resolved without anyone being harmed,’ NBC New York reported.
A spokesman for the hospital told The Jersey Journal that Alonalayoff is no longer employed there