More guns tied to weapons hoarder
A man who had 70 firearms and a staggering 50,000 bullets in his Bayside, Queens, home is in more trouble now that eight more rifles and shotguns have been found in a Long Island storage unit linked to him, the Daily News has learned.
Additional charges are expected to be handed down against Ronald Drabman, 60, in the coming weeks following the raid at a facility in New Hyde Park, police said.
Drabman is already facing more than 100 counts of illegal weapons possession and selling illegal weapons after police found an arsenal of handguns and rifles inside his Bayside home on 208th St. near 58th Ave. and in a nearby truck on April 15.
Following up on a tip that began in BedfordStuyvesant, cops found the weapons cache in Drabman's basement, authorities said. The stash included 23 handguns, 45 rifles, shotguns and assault rifles, a zip gun and two .177-caliber pellet guns.
The NYPD believes Drabman was a collector, but cops are investigating whether he planned an attack with the weapons. Authorities do not think he was part of a criminal ring.