3 facing weapons charges from tunnel plead not guilty

An officer saw a weapon on a seat, and a subsequent search uncovered two rifles, five handguns and knives.

Two men and a woman from Pennsylvania stopped while driving with a cache of weapons and apparently on their way to try to help a teenage girl involved with drugs in NY pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.

One of the suspects allegedly later told investigators that they were heading to Brooklyn to “rescue” the girl before they were stopped, officials said. Facing multiple gun possession charges, they pleaded not guilty and are being held on a $75,000 cash bail in Hudson County, New Jersey.

A police officer who pulled over a pick-up truck at the Holland Tunnel leading into Manhattan was stunned to discover the vehicle was loaded with rifles, ammunition and body armor. While Cramsey wrote on the Enough Is Enough page, “I’m now 11 miles outside of Brooklyn New York and going to a hotel to extract a 16 year old girl who went up there to Party with a few friends”. Smith replied, “I’m there”.

Cramsey is a gun range owner in Pennsylvania called Higher Ground Tactical.

In a post, which appeared on public face group, anti heroin group, Enough is Enough, John Cramsey told of the teen girl, that the trio had sought to rescue was ‘scared’ and ‘wanted to go home’.

Port Authority of NY and New Jersey police say officers stopped the van Tuesday morning in Jersey City for a cracked windshield. “It was her friend”.

A friend said Cramsey always carries a loaded gun with him in Pennsylvania and had recently been acting like “Superman”.

It’s not clear how having more guns than hands to shoot them was figuring into Cramsey’s plan, but it looks like this was not the first time John Cramsey made an armed “rescue” attempt.

The Morning Call said Cramsey had lost a daughter to a heroin overdose and spoke out about the heroin epidemic at a Pennsylvania town hall roundtable meeting in February.

Vehicles approach the Holland Tunnel, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in Jersey City, N.J. An image of the vehicle seized by police at the New Jersey side of Holland Tunnel, on June 21, 2016. One of the boxes of ammunition read, “Shoot your local heroin dealer”.

John Cramsey (l.) and Dean Smith (r.) were taken into custody by Port Authority cops Tuesday morning.

Cramsey posted Tuesday on the group Enough is Enough’s Facebook page stating he was on his way to NY to rescue the Wilkes-Barre teen.