Assault Rifles Seized, 1 Arrested After Police Search LI Home: PD

BRENTWOOD, NY— A man was arrested on Long Island Thursday for manufacturing and possessing firearms and ammunition, according to Suffolk County police.

Brandon Marquez, 23, was driving a 2020 Acura on Brentwood Road when police pulled him over for expired registration around 10:30 p.m. and discovered he was carrying an illegal weapon and a large-capacity magazine, police said.

A search of Marquez's Central Islip home resulted in the seizure of two assault rifles with magazines, a 3D printer with a computer, six ghost gun-type receivers (frames), a quantity of ammunition, and 3D printing material, police said.

Marquez was arrested and charged with six counts of criminal manufacture of an undetectable firearm, six counts of criminal possession of an undetectable firearm, two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon (assault rifles), and the initial charges of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon for the loaded firearm, and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon for the large capacity magazine, police said.

He was held overnight at the Third Precinct and is slated to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Friday.