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Subscribe to RSSPolice arrested a New York City couple in their apartment on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition, officials said on Monday.
Morgan Gliedman, 27, and Aaron Greene, 31, are being charged with two counts of suspicion of criminal possession of a weapon, for the shotgun, court documents show.
One sheaf of papers found in the apartment had a cover page that read "The Terrorist Encyclopedia," according to court documents.
Greene has been arraigned and held without bail, according to a law enforcement official involved in the investigation, who was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.
Gliedman had not yet been arraigned on Monday morning, said a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
Police went to the couple's Greenwich Village apartment Saturday to question Gliedman, the daughter of a prominent New York doctor, to investigate a credit card theft, according to a second law enforcement official.
At the apartment, detectives discovered a plastic bottle containing seven grams of Hexamethylene triperoxide diaminean, or HMTD, court documents show.
HMTD is commonly used in homemade bombs. The discovery prompted the evacuation of nearby buildings, the second source said.
Police also discovered a cache of bomb-making manuals and handwritten notebooks containing chemical formulas, the second source said.
Additionally, investigators recovered a 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun, ammunition, nine high-capacity rifle magazines and a flare launcher, the second source said.
Gliedman's father is Paul Gliedman, director of radiation oncology at Beth Israel Hospital in Brooklyn, according to law enforcement officials.
Neither Paul Gliedman nor his wife, Susyn Schops Gliedman, a Douglas Elliman realtor, returned calls for comment.
Morgan Gliedman studied creative writing at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, according to her Facebook page, which contains a photo of Gliedman outside a pink dressing room, posing in a black, scoop-neck sweater and red checkered skirt.
Greene attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., according to the New York Post, which first reported the arrests.
The newspaper quoted a law enforcement source as saying that Greene was an Occupy Wall Street activist whose political views were "extreme."
Two spokesmen for Occupy Wall Street's New York chapter said they had no knowledge of Greene.
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NRA comment, "We need more bombs. Only a good man with a bomb, can stop a bad man with a bomb."
Your inanity knows no bounds, does it?
No wonder, A creative writing degree...
Dam seems like all these little rich kids are in dare need of psychiatric evaluation from birth. LMAO
More OWS terrorist.
They make Nancy so proud.
I agree maybe McGusto, wasn't Tea Party for sure, they are not capable of that much reading or writing skills. LMAO
Another Blue State nut. Not surprising .
Two spoiled brats that have wasted their college educations.Maybe this arrest needed to happen in order to snap them both back to reality.Some prison time maybe the tough love that these two need.
30 years should help their attitudes.
All Occupiers should be put on a no fly list.
MC Gusto you are a clown, You disrespect the constitution of the United States of America with your banter.I hope you are not American because your the type of person who would parade as a patriot for brownie points. The founding fathers would spit on your grave after they had gutted you for your lack of respect.
How often are we given straight facts either by the media or by law enforcement? By the time both have put their spin on a story, the story in question is distorted and skewed in favor of someone's agenda; sensationalism for the media and accountability for law enforcement. Perhaps I'm jaded, most certainly biased admittedly. Seems one has to "read between the lines" or do a bit of research to get a glimpse of the truth when reviewing most news stories.
The newspaper quoted a law enforcement source as saying that Greene was an Occupy Wall Street activist whose political views were "extreme."
My question is this: Did law enforcement know this going in or was it discovered after the fact during interrogation? Realizing credit card theft being the reported reason for investigation, was this the motive for the investigation? Have read stories of protesters or activists being singled out after having attended protest events, wondering if this is such a case.
James
YES these two misfits were "progressives", Occupy Movement, Harvard educated, socialists.
Thank God -oh yes I said God- they were not able to kill innocent people.
They are here - terrorist's invited by our political system! Our hospitals will be the next launching site of the next 911! {:-(}
Don't worry about terrorists attacking large places where people gather or government offices and schools, because we have Homeland security and the Patriot act to keep you safe. That is what they told me. They did, I know they did. Wait I think I saw or heard that in the news or on television. Never mind.
Bob
you are mistaken President Obama kept his 2008 campaign promise about repealing the Patriotic Act and he also closed Guantanamo!
You have nothing to worry about now about those pesky 2nd and 1st Amendments.
Vic: Do you think I would vote for either of those lying, corrupt parties? That would be actually six amendments abridged, not two.
The rich suck... "Mommy can you pay my rent? I have a hot new boyfriend..."
A Harvard graduate and "Progressive" Socialist.
Things that make you go hhhmmm !?!
One more reason to not live in an apartment. Who knows what the L people are doing?
They aren't "OWS" types nor do we have the whole story with these people, before you tards start making comments. In general, people going to that "function" weren't threatening violence or planning any, otherwise they would have done violent things from the beginning. Regardless, you have to question all these so called "Terrorists" being caught, just because all the facts surrounding the apprehension aren't given and they generally all sound pretty fishy.
Terrorists Encyclopedia? Is that the same little red book the gopers use in Congress?
Anyone with a Google Tablet has a terrorist's encyclopedia. NYPD police are drama queens.
advancing from bad to worse.
I wonder if Bill Ayers is the author of that "Terrorist Encyclopedia"?
Nancy must be so proud.
What a flimsy way to implicate OWS! The case within itself throws the door of speculation wide open! Who really knows what these two were up to, and/or, if this was some kind of a setup to grab Aaron Greene!!?
All this gets me to wondering what the lives of people who plot the death and dismemberment of their fellow human beings must be like. Pretty sad and pathetic, I'd guess, but what do I know?
What is "diaminean?"
Proofreading is your friend, NBC News...
glad they had those "high capacity rifle mags" for that wouldnt be much of a story without an "assault rifle".......hmmmmm
Terrorists come from all walks of life. Prosecute them adequately and quit trying to figure out who they are. Jewish, Black or White. It doesn't matter. Plans to do harm against society is the crime.