On a spring afternoon in 2015, three NYPD officers were on patrol in Bedford-Stuyvesant, when they noticed a red Chevy Impala with dark tinted windows.
Officers Vaughan Ettienne, Ryan Galvin, and Mark Xylas, part of their precinct's plainclothes Anti-Crime team, pulled the car over. Police said they smelled the odor of marijuana. When the driver couldn't provide the proper paperwork, the cops said, they ordered the driver out of the car.
That's when they noticed a large straight-edge knife resting on the floorboard, according to the NYPD. The officers cuffed the suspect and took him to the station. The knife was just the beginning: Inside the car, police said they later found a long, black machine gun with two high-capacity magazines, one of which was loaded.
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On a spring afternoon in 2015, three NYPD officers were on [...]
