{"id":316586,"date":"2026-08-08T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316586\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:56:15","slug":"state-police-arrest-black-brook-man-following-execution-of-search-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316586\/","title":{"rendered":"State Police arrest Black Brook man following execution of search warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 4, 2026, members of the New York State Police Violent Gangs and Narcotics Enforcement Team (VGNET) executed a search warrant at a residence located at 8 Birchwood Drive in the town of Black Brook.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the search warrant, State Police seized 42 firearms, including two fully assembled assault rifles, one modified (sawed-off) shotgun, multiple major components for additional assault rifles, 11 high-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a large quantity of assorted ammunition, and approximately 50.9 grams of psilocybin mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Michael S. Ward was arrested and charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Three counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the 3rd Degree (Class D Felony)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022One count of Criminal Possession of a Firearm (Class E Felony)<\/p>\n<p>Ward was arraigned and remanded to the Clinton County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 4, 2026, members of the New York State Police Violent Gangs and Narcotics Enforcement Team (VGNET)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-316586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316586","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=316586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}