Police officer accused of illegally making guns, selling them to criminals
Gregg Marinelli, 38, a sergeant with the city's Department of Environmental Protection Police, was arrested Thursday and charged with six felonies: criminal sale of a firearm, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, manufacture/disposition of a weapon, conspiracy and hindering prosecution,
State Police and agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found gun parts, tools used to make weapons and several firearms, including at least one fully automatic assault rifle, at his home in home in Plattekill in Ulster County, 75 miles north of New York City.
Many of the weapons were "ghost" guns - meaning they were manufactured without serial numbers.
They were sold to outlaw motorcycle groups and other people with criminal convictions, who are barred from owning guns