Crime & Safety
Trucker Caught With Loaded Gun At Lincoln Tunnel: Police
Police found the Colorado man with a loaded 9mm Glock pistol with 1 round in the chamber, authorities said.
NORTH JERSEY, NJ — Police arrested a Colorado man after they found a loaded handgun inside the cab of a tractor-trailer Sunday morning, authorities said.
Police stopped Michael Anthony Paige Morse, 27, of Denver, and the 2016 Hino tractor-trailer he was driving after it set off an alarm at the Lincoln Tunnel toll plaza in Weehawken, said Joseph Pentangelo, a Port Authority Police spokesman.
Police found a 9mm Glock pistol loaded with a 15-round magazine and a round in the chamber and another nine-round magazine, Pentangelo said, and metal knuckles.
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Police also found a glass jar with 24 grams of suspected marijuana, four allegedly edible THC gummies and a small envelope containing marijuana, Pentangelo said.
Morse, was arrested and charged various weapon and drug-possession charges, Pentangelo said.
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Photos: Michael Anthony Paige Morse, 27, and the items found in the tractor-trailer he was driving/Port Authority Police Department
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