A Nanuet man who posted numerous threats against public officials including the governor and members of Congress on a Facebook page has been charged with making terroristic threats and illegal weapons possession, Clarkstown Police said today.
Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, was arrested after an investigation by Clarkstown Police and the FBI that began with a complaint from his landlord. Sgt. Glen Cummings said the landlord, a 63-year-old woman, complained on Wednesday that Mulqueen had engaged in harassing behavior toward her.
The landlord, Cummings said, alerted police that she also believed Mulqueen had a pattern of threatening behavior that included violent anti-government posts on a Facebook page that he maintained under a pseudonym - Lawrence Henry - and that Mulqueen was illegally in possession of weapons.
Cummings said an investigation revealed that the publicly accessible Facebook page maintained by Mulqueen did contain numerous threats against government officials and law enforcement. Cummings said the Facebook page had posts that Mulqueen was anxious to start killing various public officials including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
The Facebook page, according to police, also stated Mulqueen wanted all followers of President Barack Obama dead, referring to them as "traitor scum," and declaring "death to them all."
With the discovery of the threats, Clarkstown Police alerted the FBI, which assisted the town with an investigation of Mulqueen. The probe led investigators to obtain a search warrant and Mulqueen's home was raided.
Mulqueen was taken into a custody and Cummings said the raid on the home found body armor, weapons and ammunition including:
- 1 10.62x54 Bolt Action Rifle
- 1 Remington 35 Pump Action Rifle loaded with 6 rounds
- 1 Bulletproof Body Armor
- Approximately 100 rounds of Ammunition, including 27 rounds of .50 caliber armor piercing bullets (tank buster)
- 2 Rifle bayonets
- 1 Rifle Scope
- 1 Sword
- 1 Metal Knuckle Knife
No one was injured in connection with Mulqueen's arrest and the raid on his home. Clarkstown police were familiar with Mulqueen because of numerous landlord-tenant disputes that he had been involved with over the past year. Police said that previous criminal convictions made it illegal for Mulqueen to own firearms.
In addition to comments about public officials, a post on the "Lawrence Henry" Facebook page targets Mulqueen's landlord: "harass her at will friends."
The discovery and the Facebook investigation led to Mulqueen being charged with third- and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, making terroristic threats and harassment. He was arrested and arraigned in Clarkstown Town Court, where Judge Scott Ugell ordered Mulqueen held in the Rockland County Correctional Facility in New City without bail pending a hearing on Monday.
It would be child's play to obtain this lame, poor man's, "arsenal."
Clarkstown, and it's citizens were never part of any perceived threat,so how were we saved from anything. Clarkstown was not mentioned on the facebook posts. only public officials not residing in Clarkstown, or did i miss something they responded with the fbi to the house after a phone call telling them who, what,when,where,why. where is the great police work worthy of the "Well done Clarkstown Police! Very well done! Thank you for keeping us safe!!" AND THIS MAN is DANGEROUS !! thanks to CPD for keeping us SAFE. Is it just me or are these so similar that they probably were generated on Maple Ave in new city. The got a call and did what they were supposed to do. they did not save the world let alone clarkstown, the landlord said the guy was a legend in his own mind,and even if he was a serious threat he would still be watching Fox in the house without the call
Till the clarkstown pd can take full credit and not less than 1/2 for making C safe as it is please drop the references to how safe it is. I have not even factored in how demographics plays a large part in safety rating. Clarkstown does not have the demographics that high crime areas have, meaning there is not a lot of crime to fight. demographics, citizens, geography,heavy traffic, all contribute to lower crime rates. police are in there too, but they are just one piece of the cake, but they are theonly part that have their cake and eat it too. without everything else in place and working c town would not be so safe and nobody would be saying. "Well done Clarkstown Police! Very well done! Thank you for keeping us safe!!" AND THIS MAN is DANGEROUS !! thanks to CPD for keeping us SAFE.
done
same as Mulqueen's.
A threat made against the president is the same whether the person owns a weapon or not. Cars, planes, trucks can all be used as weapons. (ps... 2 rifles is not an arsenal) Studies ? , this I would love to see. What ammunition is it that that causes people to carry out a threat ? I would carry more than that if I was just heading to the range. I know, since I am a veteran I guess I am a terrorist too in the liberal mindset. Plenty of whack jobs out there... Where has the OWS crowd been lately ? So it's ok to ignore threats from non firearm owners ?
Thank you for insulting every member or the military that has every served. You should thank them for allowing you to be a moron.
Your ORIGINAL statement says treatment of vets [meaning ALL vets]--NOT SOME VETS.as in "I'm sure SOME will beg to differ" IN YOUR REPLY TO ME. what is your gripe with the way they are treated anyway. My god,on top of everything else they get they now want to take all the good jobs away from people who are losing homes, have no insurance and can't say or are afraid to say anything because of people like you getting on their case. I hope i would be too ashamed and embarrassed to take a job from a family looking at foreclosure if i was a recent vet. How is that even justifiable. If they are so well trained and excellent workers why can't they apply like the rest of the country. I am still trying to figure out why they don't get hired right off the bat if they are such ideal workers. I mean don't the people doing the hiring want the best for their company or do they need a tax deduction to convince them. As you might have noticed this upsets me greatly, especially since the US military is the biggest jobs program in the world and the vets looking for jobs just left it. with all the hundreds of jobs programs for vets it just incentivises them to exit from the military to take advantage before the good jobs are gone.
I think i have a better solution for this vet jobs thing.. when a vet voluntarily separates he is eligible for 2 yrs unemployment[reviewable/extendable [federally] after 2 yrs] while collecting unemployment the vet can work [anywhere] and pad the unemployment up to 2x the salary vet was making before vet enlisted. Vet must go to school [free-va] vet gets a 0 interest car loan up to 20K or 1/2 upfront costs for car lease [lease-up to $250 per mo].. no tax to buy or register this accomplishes at least 2 things. 1 inhibits people from enlisting simply because they have no job [ economic reasons] by not rewarding them with lifetime employment from the moment they enlisted and does not eliminate all the good jobs people with families need NOW and potentially from now on. when vets separate voluntarily into a bad job market there will be some with ptsd. not as many as claim it, but some. i am not interested in why someone who did not have it would claim to. separation should be contingent on vet having no ptsd. vets presenting with legitimate ptsd should be managed by the military and overseen by congress,not locally