Man Seen Pulling Machine Gun Through Bed-Stuy In Suitcase: Feds

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — A Bed-Stuy man hurled a suitcase with a loaded machine gun inside it at cops who found him on his way to exact revenge on people who jumped him at a party, court records released Monday show.

Anthony Morgan, 26, was rolling the suitcase with the stock of the semiautomatic rifle sticking out of it down Marcy Avenue and Halsey Street when four cops spotted him just before 11 p.m. on March 1, according to the recently unsealed criminal complaint.

An officer who saw the AR-15 leapt out of a nearby cop car and started to chase Morgan, who broke into a run, testified Debra Lawson, an officer with the NYPD Triggerlock Unit.

Morgan then tried to yank the 5.56-caliber weapon out of his bag, but it got stuck so he threw the ammo and gun-loaded luggage at the officer instead, court records show.

Police arrested Morgan and hauled him to the 79th Precinct, where he admitted he’d been heading toward a party where he’d been “jumped” earlier that evening, prosecutors said.

The rifle had been fitted with a bump stock, an attachment that allows shooters to fire multiple rounds with a single squeeze of the trigger and which will be banned across the country as of Tuesday after gunman Stephen Paddock used it to kill 58 people in the 2017 Las Vegas Massacre.

Earlier this month, Morgan was arraigned on criminal possession of a machine gun and ammunition charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court and held on $200,000 bail.

Morgan, who has one prior conviction for attempted robbery in 2001, is slated to return to court Monday afternoon for a bail application hearing, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.