A New Jersey hospital marketing director was arrested this week after a bomb threat at the facility led police to discover a cache of weapons and ammunition stashed in an unlocked office closet.
Reuven Alonalayoff, who worked at Hudson Regional Hospital, was taken into custody Sunday at Newark Liberty International Airport with assistance from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.
Alonalayoff, 46, of Elmwood Park, was charged with possession of an assault firearm and two counts of possession of a high capacity magazine.
Lawyer information for him was not immediately available.
His arrest comes weeks after the hospital received a phone call on July 18 that a bomb was in the facility, the Secaucus Police Department said in a news release.
The bomb-detecting canines, along with officers, swept the hospital. The canine flagged the unlocked closet, according to officials.
The police found a large collection of rifles, shotguns and handguns, along with some ammunition for the firearms, along with assorted ammunition for the firearms, police said.
Authorities found 11 handguns of various calibers, 27 rifles shotguns and a high-capacity magazine with 14 rounds, according to authorities. They found a Kriss Vector 45-caliber semiautomatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine and determined it was an assault rifle, police said.
The authorities learned that the bomb threat was a hoax and looked at the arsenal of weapons.
It is not clear how Alonalayoff got the weapons into the hospital, how long they were in the office or why they were in the office closet. NBC News reached out to officials for comment on those details as well as Alonalayoff's status with the hospital.
The unsecured storage of a large amount of weaponry is a risk to public safety, according to Dennis Miller, the police chief. I commend the efforts and professionalism of all police personnel involved in this investigation and am thankful that the situation was resolved without any of them being harmed.