Arms rap for bomb susp

A MARINE CORPS veteran awaiting trial for a failed car bombing was arrested after authorities found an astonishing stash of weapons at his Bronx home, including a grenade launcher.

Richard Laugel, 38, “presented an extreme danger to the community,” law enforcement officials said Thursday, announcing he was in federal custody after a daylong manhunt.

The NYPD and Depart- ment of Homeland Security agents found three pistols, firearms silencers, a grenade launcher, an AR-15 rifle and a teddy bear that c contained about 30 g grams of cocaine in h his Palmer Ave. h home in Baychest ter, officials said.

Laugel (photo), a an Iraq War vetera an, lived there with a woman and her two children.

Authorities searched the home Tuesday while investigating a drug dealing opera- tion, prosecutors said. A criminal complaint revealed authorities had noticed Laugel made suspicious PayPal payment for pill-making materials from China.

Laugel was arrested Wednesday without incident.

He was already facing arson and attempted murder charges for allegedly planting a makeshift nail bomb under a 24-year-old man’s rented Nissan hatchback in 2016.