{"id":189587,"date":"2026-04-08T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189587\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:17:08","slug":"drunk-armed-brooklyn-man-shows-up-at-nypd-stationhouse-asking-for-help-is-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189587\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk armed Brooklyn man shows up at NYPD stationhouse asking for help, is arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drunken man who walked into a Brooklyn NYPD stationhouse complaining someone was following him and stealing his mail was busted when officers realized he was armed and wearing a bullet-resistant vest, police<\/a> sources said.<\/p>\n

Daniel Gedna is charged with gun and ammunition possession, as well as the unlawful wearing<\/a> of body armor and possession of an illegal feeding device \u2014 an extended magazine for one of the guns.<\/p>\n

Gedna, 45,\u00a0showed up at the 75th Precinct<\/a> stationhouse in East New York shortly after noon Monday and asked to speak to a detective because his mail was being stolen and he believed he was being followed, police sources said.<\/p>\n

Gedna, who lives a mile from the stationhouse, was given a number to call. A\u00a0short time later he said he really needed to speak to someone face to face.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when officers saw he had a gun in his holster, sources said.<\/p>\n

Gedna said the gun\u2019s license had lapsed but when police realized he was also clad in a bullet-resistant vest under his clothes and that he had a second gun on him, this one with an illegal extended magazine, they moved in and arrested him, sources said.<\/p>\n

Both guns were loaded.<\/p>\n

Gedna claimed he usually only drinks on the weekend, that he works as an armed security guard and that he intended no harm, sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the NYPD,\u201d one source quoted him saying.<\/p>\n

Gedna\u2019s arraignment was still pending Wednesday in Brooklyn Criminal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drunken man who walked into a Brooklyn NYPD stationhouse complaining someone was following him and stealing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,76046],"class_list":{"0":"post-189587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-the-suspect-said-he-did-not-intend-to-shoot-anyone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189587","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=189587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}