{"id":116847,"date":"2026-01-30T00:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:02:10","slug":"nyc-correction-officer-busted-with-stash-of-weapons-in-car-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116847\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Correction officer busted with stash of weapons in car: DA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty city Department of Correction officer was arrested this week for allegedly driving around with a stash of weapons in his car \u2013 including an assault rifle, a shotgun and a machete, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops stopped Johnathan Williams, 40, after he made an improper left turn in his Honda at 161st Place and Baisley Boulevard in Rochdale around 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to a complaint filed in Queens Criminal Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The officers found a gravity knife in the front driver\u2019s side door \u2013 and then discovered even more weapons in the trunk, the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38326514\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/view-two-new-york-city-119964192.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - MAY 20: A view of two New York City Corrections Department vans exiting Rikers Island with their sirens on possibly holding the former IMF Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on May 20, 2011 in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-38326514\"  \/>Johnathan Williams, 40, was arrested with an assault rifle, a shotgun and other weapons in his Honda during a Queens car stop Tuesday, prosecutors said. WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Williams allegedly had a machete with a blade more than four inches long, a Remington 870 shotgun and an Anderson .556 assault rifle with a detachable magazine, pistol grip and telescoping stock, the court doc said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three shotgun shells were recovered from the front driver\u2019s side door, as well as 20 rounds of .556 ammunition from a container inside the center console, the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>Williams  \u2013 who has worked in the city\u2019s jails for less than a year \u2013 was arrested and faces multiple charges related to weapons and ammunition possession, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed to the DOC on May 30, 2025, and worked in the Robert N. Davoren Complex on Rikers Island, the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams was suspended without pay indefinitely following his arrest, according to the DOC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty city Department of Correction officer was arrested this week for allegedly driving around with a stash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3283,303,21470,4542,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,58,19038],"class_list":{"0":"post-116847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-department-of-corrections","11":"tag-guns","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-queens","19":"tag-us-news","20":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}