Tinted Window Car Stop In Secaucus Leads To Loaded Illegal Gun

SECAUCUS, NJ — A car stop for heavily tinted windows on Meadowlands Parkway Monday resulted in an illegal, fully loaded gun being recovered, and the car was wanted in several gunpoint robberies on Long Island, said police.

At 11:19 a.m. Monday, Secaucus Police Officer Jonathan Padron saw the Dodge Charger on Meadowlands Parkway with heavily tinted windows. It is legal in New Jersey to have tinted windows in certain parts of the car, but it is illegal if the windows are too dark or too tinted.

He stopped the car, ran its plates and it became known that the Dodge Charger was alleged to have been involved in several armed robberies in Nassau County, New York.

The car was then subsequently impounded for further investigation.

A search of the car recovered a loaded Taurus G2C, which is a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, along with two .40 caliber fifteen-round magazines.

Seti Barnwell, 22, and Emmanuel Philostin, 20, both of Brooklyn, were charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, two counts of possession of a high-capacity magazine, unlawful possession of hollow-point ammunition and unlawful possession of handgun ammunition.

They were taken to the Hudson County Jail.

“This gun arrest is another example of how members of the Secaucus Police Department will continue to proactively police the town,” Chief Dennis Miller said. “The sheer amount of loaded guns possessed by the criminal element is quite disturbing, but I can only hope our criminal justice system will apply the law and administer a penalty that would deter criminals from possessing illegal firearms.”

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