County Deputy Mayor indicted on 117 Counts

With the police all defunded and violent crime spiraling out of control across the nation, you can’t blame a deputy mayor in Rockland County, New York, for wanting to take the law into his own hands. Nobody can blame him but the FBI can arrest and charge him. They did. On more than 100 felonies. He just got a little too vigilant and crossed a neon blue line.

Deputy Mayor plays cop

Airmont, New York’s Deputy Mayor, Brian Downey, was indicted on Friday, December 17, on “117 counts of possessing weapons and three counts of having forged law enforcement credentials.”

They raided his home and came out with “an arsenal of weapons and bogus police badges.” He seems to have been a one man army.

The details are just surfacing but back on September 2, a search of Deputy Mayor Downey’s home turned up 12 firearm silencers, 19 assault rifles, and more than 85 high-capacity magazines.”

Rockland District Attorney Thomas Walsh explains he got busted when someone reported a silencer purchase. The feds were in on the seizure side-by-side with local authorities when they came across his collection of “fake federal law enforcement badges and insignias.” He also had “two bogus New York State Court Officer shields and a New York State Court Officer ID card.”

Deputy Mayor Downey quickly lawyered up and they instantly denied the charges. The cops are certain they have a solid case but it’s up to the prosecutor to get him convicted. Police opened the investigation when they were “tipped off by Homeland Security agents to a package being mailed to Downey’s home containing a firearm silencer.”

They’re legal to own in New York, as long as you get a $200 federal permit. Downey didn’t have a permit.

Weapons weren’t licensed

After they found out about the one shady order, they determined “other packages had been delivered to his residence.” That means just receiving mail can be considered suspicious activity to the feds. The deputy Mayor sheepishly admits that his weapons weren’t licensed.

Libertarians sympathize by noting not everyone likes to advertise their personal arsenal details in case they might actually need to use them someday. “He stated that he lacked any registration or authorization for controlled firearms, such as the short-barrel rifle or the sawed-off shotgun.”

Also, the badge collection the deputy mayor had may be awful suspicious looking but so far, there isn’t any evidence he tried to impersonate an officer. They may be forged but authentic looking law enforcement credentials but as long as they sit on a display shelf, they aren’t any more offensive than those novelty “Zombie Hunter” licenses you can carry in your wallet for fun.

His look just good enough to be conversation pieces. From now on, the feds will be watching any package labeled as a “motorcycle noise reduction exhaust pipe.” That’s how the silencer was listed.

Because they can’t say much other than they stumbled on a cache of undisclosed weapons, the feds are quick to point out they want to look like they are doing their job for a change.

“This indictment goes to show the effectiveness of inter-agency cooperation,” Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II stated for the record. They couldn’t catch their criminal deputy mayor without help from the feds. “My office will continue to work with our partners at all levels of law enforcement to protect the safety of Rockland County residents. I would like to thank our partners in this investigation for their tireless work and professionalism.”