Drunk man busted in NYC subway station with bizarre homemade gun hidden in pants: cops - New York Post

Police officers tried to assistance a drunk antheral astatine a subway presumption — and realized helium was packing a bizarre-looking homemade firearm successful his pants, starring to his apprehension implicit the weekend, constabulary sources said Monday.

Melvin Montoya, 37, was recovered drunk wrong the 149th Street–Grand Concourse presumption successful Mott Haven astir 11:45 p.m. Saturday, and cops jumped successful to assistance him, authorities said. 

That’s erstwhile they noticed a long, dense metallic entity going down his leg.

The officers frisked Montoya — and helium allegedly reached for the crudely-made weapon, which the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit aboriginal determined was a gas-operated one-shot rifle, according to constabulary and the sources.

Cops recovered the crudely made weapon hidden successful Montoya’s pants.

Montoya tried to scope for the weapon erstwhile cops frisked him, sources said.

Photos of the weird handmade weapon obtained by The Post amusement a long, metallic wrench-like instrumentality with screws and what appears to beryllium a lever.

Montoya allegedly told cops helium built the instrumentality himself, and that it was susceptible of firing rounds, sources said.

He was charged with aggregate counts of transgression possession of a limb – 1 for possession of a disguised weapon and different for carrying a weapon arsenic a convicted felon, cops said.