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Man gets 2 years for machine guns kept in hidden bunker
NEWARK -- The owner of a Passaic County home where police discovered a bunker filled with dozens of firearms, some of them illegally possessed machine guns, has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to federal weapons offenses.
Mariusz Cebula, 36, of Ringwood, had pleaded guilty in October before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton, who imposed the sentence Monday in Newark, according to a statement from the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.
Cebula was arrested in July 2015 after police, who had gone to his Skyline Drive home to serve a temporary restraining order, found a hidden room containing dozens of firearms, including a 40mm Mk-19 automatic grenade launcher and 262 high-capacity magazines.
As part of his guilty plea, Cebula admitted to knowingly possessing five machine guns in working condition:
The U.S. Attorney's Office said the approximately 80 firearms recovered at Cebula's home pushed Ringwood to the sixth highest spot on a list of New Jersey cities with the most seized firearms in 2015, based on data collected by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Man gets 2 years for machine guns kept in hidden bunker
NEWARK -- The owner of a Passaic County home where police discovered a bunker filled with dozens of firearms, some of them illegally possessed machine guns, has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to federal weapons offenses.
Mariusz Cebula, 36, of Ringwood, had pleaded guilty in October before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton, who imposed the sentence Monday in Newark, according to a statement from the office of U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman.
Cebula was arrested in July 2015 after police, who had gone to his Skyline Drive home to serve a temporary restraining order, found a hidden room containing dozens of firearms, including a 40mm Mk-19 automatic grenade launcher and 262 high-capacity magazines.
As part of his guilty plea, Cebula admitted to knowingly possessing five machine guns in working condition:
- Sten MkII, 9mm
- PPSh-41, 7.62x25mm
- UZI, 9mm
- MP-41, 9mm
- MP-44, 7.92x33mm
The U.S. Attorney's Office said the approximately 80 firearms recovered at Cebula's home pushed Ringwood to the sixth highest spot on a list of New Jersey cities with the most seized firearms in 2015, based on data collected by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Man gets 2 years for machine guns kept in hidden bunker