{"id":197427,"date":"2026-04-14T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:15:38","slug":"cosplayer-arrested-for-carrying-sword-on-subway-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197427\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cosplayer&#8217; arrested for carrying sword on subway in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man claiming to be a cosplayer was arrested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/08\/suspect-with-sword-nabbed-for-beating-stranger-to-death-in-brooklyn-subway-stop-over-look\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carrying a sword<\/a> on the subway in Queens, cops said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Armando Masson, 35, was on an A train stopped at the Lefferts Blvd-Liberty Ave. stop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/19\/queens-man-struck-by-hit-run-driver-while-walking-dogs-mourns-pet-killed-in-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Richmond Hill<\/a> around 6:15 p.m. Monday, when sharp-eyed officers spotted him carrying the weapon wrapped in fabric on Monday, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>After police inspected the long blade, the suspect told the officers that he was a cosplayer and that the sword was a prop. He also admitted to carrying a folding knife on his belt, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Masson, who lives in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/03\/man-75-found-dead-throat-cut-outside-apartment-astoria-queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Astoria<\/a>, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man claiming to be a cosplayer was arrested for carrying a sword on the subway in Queens,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-197427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nyc-crime","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-queens-headlines","21":"tag-queens-news","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197427","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=197427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}