{"id":2473,"date":"2007-06-29T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/on_the_one_hand_you_incur_the_wrath_of_george_steinbrenner_while_on_the_other_you_have_the_atf_--_and_im_pretty_sure_steinbrenner_is_still_less_armed_than_the_feds.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:29:05","slug":"on_the_one_hand_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/on_the_one_hand_1.html","title":{"rendered":"On The One Hand You Incur The Wrath Of George Steinbrenner While On The Other You Have The ATF &#8212; And I&#8217;m Pretty Sure Steinbrenner Is Still Less Armed Than The Feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make money selling crap on eBay, hawk comic books, baseball tickets or even your wife&#8217;s Lladro, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/118311755490660.xml&#038;coll=1\">but whatever you do, please try to avoid trafficking in hazardous and potentially lethal chemicals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Fears of home-grown terrorism shuddered through a large section of Staten Island last night when local and federal authorities uncovered about 3,000 pounds of potentially explosive chemicals stored in a Graniteville home and nearby storage facility.<\/p>\n<p>Potassium nitrate, sulfur, mercury and peroxide were among the 21 different types of chemicals discovered during a raid of 199 Ada Drive, police said. Quantities ranged from 5 to 215 pounds, according to one law enforcement official speaking on the condition on anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing discovery led to the evacuation of more than 200 residents from 56 homes on Ada Drive, which is off Richmond Avenue bordering Baron Hirsch Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>At the nearby Public Storage Facility at 1107 Goethals Road North in Mariners Harbor, cops found 2,500 pounds of potassium nitrate, a component of gunpowder. The chemical, also known as saltpeter, is commercially used as fertilizer, cleaning solvent for septic tanks and meat preservative.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Miguel Serrano, 57, the homeowner of 199 Ada Dr. who also was renting the storage space, had purchased the chemicals in bulk and was reselling them for a profit on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Serrano was also using some of the chemicals, including mercury and peroxide, to clean his pool.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with reckless endangerment; other charges are pending, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was an unlicensed chemical salesman,&#8221; said one cop source with knowledge of the investigation. &#8220;He has no conscience. Who knows who he was selling to on the Internet?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to make money selling crap on eBay, hawk comic books, baseball tickets or even your wife&#8217;s Lladro, but whatever you do, please try to avoid trafficking in hazardous and potentially lethal chemicals: Fears of home-grown terrorism shuddered through a large section of Staten Island last night when local and federal authorities uncovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}