Authorities Conduct Two More Sweeps Of Lacey Woods After Arrest Of Trenton Man With Gun Cache

Most people don't hang out deep in the woods of the Pine Barrens with an AK-47 and an arsenal of other guns just for fun.

But that's where Trenton resident Bruce J. Post was last weekend. And area police are looking for any information about why he was there, considering his "well-publicized past history," Lacey Police Chief David A. Paprota said.

Lacey are asking anyone with information that might be helpful to the investigation to contact Lieutenant Michael DiBella or Officer Michael Eden at 609-693-6636. Two additional searches have been conducted in the general area of the encounter this week, with the help of the Ocean County Sheriff's Department and the New Jersey State Police.

Police found Post - clad in combat gear - and another unidentified man about 100 yards away from their vehicle, behaving suspiciously, the chief said.

"One subject, identified as Bruce J. Post III, was wearing combat gear and gave indications of possible white-supremacist involvement," Paprota said.

Police also found a cache of weapons at the scene, including an AK-47, a Walther P38 9mm handgun, eight 30-round high-capacity magazines, one 100-round drum magazine and assorted ammunition, the chief said.

Post, 42, was taken to police headquarters and charged with first-degree unlawful possession of weapons and certain persons not to possess weapons, including other charges.

He remains in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River in lieu of $400,000 cash bail.

Post wore a Nazi uniform as a teenager and often goose-stepped around the Hamilton Township neighborhood the family lived in. Both he and his brother Joseph were connected to the 1995 murder of Andrew Whited. White was found frozen in the woods with 29 stab wounds, according the Investigation Discovery documentary "Evil Kin: Brothers in Arms"

Charges are pending against the second man, a 38-year-old from Hamilton, Paprota said.The multi-agency task force that led to the arrest was established several weeks ago by the Lacey Township Police Department due to the increasing trespassing by persons in off-road vehicles, fire hazards, and criminal activity within the rural wooded areas west of the Garden State Parkway in Lacey Township. The details will continue in the weeks to come.