Florida man busted at NJ transit center after boarding Amtrak train with ‘small arsenal’ of weapons: AG

Fox News via NY Post ^ | 04/19/2025 | Peter D'Abrosca

[DFG]

A Florida man has been indicted in Trenton, New Jersey, after allegedly boarding an Amtrak train with what authorities described as a “small arsenal” of weapons.

Jeffrey O. Kennerk, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was caught on a train on Jan. 3 with assault weapons, large-capacity ammunition magazines, handguns, silencers, and a booby-trapped rifle that fired during his arrest at the Trenton Transit Center, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s office said on April 16.

“This defendant allegedly hauled a small arsenal of deadly weapons and ammunition through busy transit stations, and on a train filled with passengers,” Platkin said in a statement. “He allegedly left a suitcase containing assorted weapons and ammunition – including an assault rifle – in the concourse of Newark Penn Station, where anyone could have been harmed by them. If not for the outstanding police work done in this matter, we can only imagine where this defendant and these weapons would have ended up.”

A New Jersey Transit Police officer was tipped off to an unaccompanied black and white zebra-print suitcase near the entrance to the Newark subway.

When authorities investigated the bag, they found a handgun with a fully loaded 18-round magazine.

Further investigation revealed an AR-style magazine fully loaded with .223 ammunition, and a plastic bag with two boxes of 9mm ammunition and four boxes of .223 ammunition, officials said.

[DFG]

[Steely Tom]

Florida Man could be anywhere.

[FreedomPoster]

So they’re saying he didn’t even have a basic load?

[HYPOCRACY]

Typical Trump supporter.

[Yardstick]

I was expecting him to have a small arsenal of alligators.

[OldHarbor]

Uh oh, Dreadlockian

[BigEdLB]

Florida Mann, Maryland Mann…… bruthas fromma nutha mutha

[kinsman redeemer]

Yup.
“GUILTY!”

[Deaf Smith]

The cops were frightened by load magazines and scary look’n 223 ammunition?

[DannyTN]

They may have just prevented a massacre at a sheep farm.

[Chainmail]

I'm sorta curious: he was from Florida, captured in New Jersey, on his way to Virgnia?

Was he lost?

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Out of his kennel......are the police certain he does not identify as a canid?

( I would rather look at the dog. The man is a deliberate unkempt slob. )

[showme_the_Glory]

Bad hare day?

[T.B. Yoits]

Arsenal?

Only pathetic clowns in the propaganda media, such as Fox News would call that an arsenal.

That was one carry-on piece of luggage. As per the article, "...allegedly left a suitcase...".

Carry-on luggage - bad. Pockets full of fentanyl, meth, and crack - good.

[ridesthemiles]

THE LIGHTS ARE BARELY ON-—BUT , FIR SURE, NO ONE IS AT HOME

[T.B. Yoits]

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin needs to be denied armed protection paid for by taxpayers. “This defendant allegedly hauled a small arsenal of deadly weapons and ammunition through busy transit stations, and on a train filled with passengers.”

Small arsenal? In one piece of luggage? Deadly weapons? Does he mean like a box cutter or lighter fluid?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[coloradan]

What are the laws against transportation of weapons, and are they compliant with the Second Amendment? (Were there similar laws in 1791?)

[2111USMC]

He allegedly left a suitcase containing assorted weapons and ammunition – including an assault rifle – in the concourse of Newark Penn Station, where anyone could have been harmed by them.

I hate it when guns jump out of suitcases, load themselves, and start shooting up a train station.

[Organic Panic]

The bugs in his heart are more dangerous that that “arsenal”