A security guard who works at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum and two other men are accused of smuggling 50 guns into New York City bus and storing them inside the Equinox gym where one of the suspects worked.
Security guard, 29-year-old Maquan Moore, and Morris Wilson of Florida were both arrested on Thursday night after four deals with undercover NYPD officers and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive agents.
A third suspect who was an employee at the Greenwich Avenue Equinox, is still at large.
The guns allegedly sold to an undercover officer on Jan. 10. Among them is the MAC-10 (circled) which is an assault weapon and banned under New York State law
One of the men worked as a security guard at the 9/11 Memorial, one of the nation’s most sacred sites
Sources said that Wilson, of Orlando, brought the guns to the city by bus beginning in October.
Moore would then allegedly take the guns to the Equinox, where the third suspect stored them for short periods before taking them to gun sales.
Moore is charged with trafficking more than 25 firearms, although it’s believed 50 firearms were smuggled into the city.
Among the guns allegedly sold were several 9-millimeter handguns, a Kahr .380 pistol and an AM-15 semiautomatic rifle.
A third suspect who was an employee at the Greenwich Ave Equinox, pictured, is still at large
The undercover cops and ATF agents set up four buys from the men.
The undercover agents purchased the guns outside the gym just blocks away from Public School M560, a high school in lower Manhattan.
A few months earlier, Moore and an undercover officer met on Malcom X Boulevard in Brooklyn on November 28.
Moore told the officer he had access to firearms from an out-of-state connection and showed the officer a photo on his cellphone of multiple firearms available for purchase.
Among the guns were several 9-millimeter handguns, a Kahr .380 pistol and an AM-15 semiautomatic rifle
Moore and the undercover officer then met four times – December 13, 27, January 3 and 10 at a location in lower Manhattan.
All of the meetings were video and audio recorded, according to the complaint.
At the first meeting, Moore allegedly sold the officer four firearms. At the second meeting he sold five firearms, nine at the third meeting and a further nine firearms at the fourth meeting.
Among the weapons sold was a MAC-10, which is classed as an assault weapon under state law.
On January 23, Moore got in touch with the officer to tell him about another set of guns that he was ready to sell.
The complaint alleges four of those seven guns were purchased in Florida in December.