Posted on 04/10/2016 1:48:10 PM PDT by arl295
JERSEY CITY -- A traffic stop near the Holland Tunnel yesterday evening lead to the recovery of a shotgun and nearly 200 rounds of ammunition, a police spokesman said.
At about 6:30 p.m., a police officer saw a blue plastic drum in the back up a pickup truck that had just passed through the Holland Tunnel toll plaza. The officer stopped the vehicle driven by a Pennsylvanian man to make sure there were no hazardous materials in the drum, Port Authority spokesman Joe Pentangelo said.
Police asked the driver Marlon Murphy, 45, of Easton, if there were any weapons in the back of his truck. Murphy told the officer there was a shotgun in the barrel, Pentangelo said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
See pic in post 13.
I always thought the blue barrels were for water or possibly for storing edible type stuff.
I guess it would be the perfect cover for transporting biohazards or toxic waste.
No documentation?
I guess you need to carry a pocket constitution with you at all times if you live in NJ.
Unlicensed shotgun possession in NYC is a felony. I presume, since he was a "Pennsylvania man" and since NYC/NYS do not issue nonresident licenses that he didn't have one.
What's interesting about this story is how they caught him - since the Holland Tunnel has approximately 100 000 vehicles/day, they must have some high-tech screening.
Agreed... and they are now posting the picture of the guy who got screwed at the Holland Tunnel. Not the same guy.
The vehicles in the photo are NYPD.
Thanks for the update.
NY has the same affliction.
There is a whole hunting culture out there called “the one shot club”, or some such, as I recall.
Why do so many on this thread assume Murphy is a "good guy"?
Murphy's mug shot (left) reminds me of John Allen Muhammed (right). Remember him?
Maybe an alert tunnel security agent observed something else ... besides the blue barrel ... like nervous behavior. Maybe security personnel even used [gasp] some kind of profiling!
I move hazmat all the time and many times it comes in blue barrels. I completely agree that it's stupid for NJ to arrest this guy. But if you want to hide a gun in NJ do NOT put it in a blue barrel and go through the Holland Tunnel.
After having spent my first sixty-three years in NJ, I’ve spent the last two years pining away for my home state. But in the last few months, it has become clear to me that it was one of the smartest things we’ve ever done. I wish everyone could have seen how wonderful NJ was to grow up in. But stories like this (which I’m certain is accurate) reinforce for me that we’ll never go back. The saddest thing is that it needn’t have been that way...
The media goes nuts of “hundreds” of rounds (or in this case shells) of anything. I can spend $100 and go through 200 rounds in about 45 minutes at the local gun range. And that’s through 3 or 4 different weapons. In fact, I do regularly. Worse, GASP! I carry an ammo case LOADED with “rounds”.
(I’m in Indiana. Ammunition is pretty boring around here.)
Silly FReeper, you left out all the environmental laws and regulations he was obviously conspiring to commit associated with the negligent lead contamination from aforementioned conspiracies.
“Isn’t it illegal to profile blue barrels?”
#BlueBarrelsContentsMatter
Best I could do with a posting deadline.
The cop in the story is a Port Authority Cop, he probably makes 250K a year and will get a 125K a year pension for life....
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