Dobbs Ferry Man Charged with Illegally Possessing Firearms and Explosives

From the Hudson Independent

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Some of the items found in the storage unit rented by Dobbs Ferry man.

By Rick Pez­zullo—

A Dobbs Ferry man could face up to 15 years in prison af­ter be­ing charged Thurs­day with il­le­gal pos­ses­sion of more than 30 firearms and ex­plo­sive de­vices.

James Neff, 61, was charged May 2 by the Fed­eral Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion and the United States At­tor­ney for the South­ern Dis­trict of New York with one count of pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion af­ter a felony con­vic­tion, hav­ing pre­vi­ously been con­victed on New York State charges of a crime pun­ish­able for a term longer than one year.

“As al­leged, James Neff, some 23 years af­ter hav­ing been con­victed on sim­i­lar state charges for crim­i­nal pos­ses­sion of a weapon, has again il­le­gally stock­piled nu­mer­ous firearms, in­clud­ing what ap­pear to be as­sault ri­fles and per­son­ally man­u­fac­tured firearms, or ‘ghost guns,’ a sig­nif­i­cant amount of am­mu­ni­tion, and sus­pected ma­te­ri­als and para­pher­na­lia con­sis­tent with sus­pected home­made and im­pro­vised ex­plo­sive de­vices,” said Damian Williams, the U.S. At­tor­ney.

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