{"id":329411,"date":"2026-08-25T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329411\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:38:13","slug":"police-find-loaded-gun-after-staten-island-man-stopped-for-spitting-on-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329411\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Find Loaded Gun After Staten Island Man Stopped for Spitting on Sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say NYPD officers confiscated a loaded gun from a 31-year-old man in New Brighton after he was caught spitting on the sidewalk. Kwame Budu of Corson Avenue in New Brighton was arrested on Aug. 2 at about 9 a.m. near Jersey Street and Stanley Avenue after police asked for identifying information. He allegedly ran away and resisted arrest by tensing and flailing his arms. Officers recovered a 9 mm Canik TP9 Elite firearm from his fanny pack. Police say the gun had one bullet in the chamber and a magazine containing 15 rounds. Budu has pleaded not guilty and was arraigned in state Supreme Court in St. George on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say NYPD officers confiscated a loaded gun from a 31-year-old man in New Brighton after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[123857,61083,60547,9,24,63,9751,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-329411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-kwame-budu","tag-loaded-gun","tag-new-brighton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-officers","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329411","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=329411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}