3 found with weapons cache wanted to ‘rescue’ girl
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”.
Cramsey, Dean Smith, of Whitehall, and Kimberly Arendt, of Lehighton, have pleaded not guilty to weapons possession charges.
A law enforcement source told The Daily Beast that a woman who overdosed in Brooklyn called friends in Pennsylvania after she woke up next to another woman who was dead.
Lawyers for John Cramsey, Dean Smith and Kimberly Arendt said the search that uncovered the weapons was illegal and that they planned to challenge the seizure.
Cramsey’s friend, Michael Nickisher, believes the death of Cramsey’s daughter prompted the “vigilante” act.
“That’s why the group is enough is enough, they’re exhausted of seeing these overdoses and people losing their children to drugs”, said Plocinik.
Authorities investigated that claim and assisted the girl in question before determining she was in good condition and was not being held against her will, CBS2 added. Police say they took her into custody.
The trio wasn’t traveling incognito.
The top of the truck’s windscreen was marked with the name of Cramsey’s High Ground Tactical gun range company.
A Port Authority photo, obtained by media outlets, also showed a bag with the words “Firearms Instructor” and a box with the phrase “Shoot Your Local Heroin Dealer” in the vehicle.
Cramsey, along with two passengers who were with him at the time, are being held at the Hudson County jail in New Jersey.
The trio will be in the Hudson County Courthouse in Jersey City, where they will make their first appearance since their colorful Dodge was stopped on the New Jersey side of the tunnel for a cracked windshield around 8 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
But sources told The News that the teen target of the rescue told police she didn’t need to be rescued – and Port Authority cops couldn’t verify the teen was ever in trouble.
Inside the SUV, police discovered tactical gear, knives, an assault rifle, a shotgun, five semi-automatic handguns and plenty of ammunition.
It was unclear what the weapons had to do with their plans.
But Judge Sheila Venable was unmoved, and said guidelines permitted the judge who had set bail on Tuesday to consider the nature of the weapons found in the auto.
The three pleaded not guilty. “They saw all the decals and the painting basically espousing their Second Amendment rights and that’s why they stopped them”.
The van advertising Cramsey’s business was “decorated with anti-drug dealer and pro-gun logos and banners”, the Morning Call said. “This conduct had the potential to bring danger to the destination of these defendants”. It is unlawful to transport a loaded gun in a vehicle in New Jersey, where the truck was stopped.