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Possible White Supremacist Found With Gun Cache, AK-47 In Lacey Woods: Police

Lacey Township is named after a Revolution War General John Lacey.



Patricia A. Miller

Lacey, NJ Patch | Shared from the Berkeley, NJ Patch




A Trenton man who was wearing combat gear and had numerous guns was arrested Sunday afternoon in a wooded area off Bryant Road, Lacey Police Chief David A. Paprota said.

Lacey police were part of a multi-agency special task force combing the woods within the Greenwood Forest Wildife Management Area when they came across a 2007 Hyundai Tucson pulled off the road in the woods at 1:05 p.m., the chief said.

Lacey Sgt. Paul Sullivan Jr. and Senior Officer Michael Eden then located two men about 100 yards from the vehicle, who were behaving suspiciously.

"One subject, identified as Bruce J. Post III, was wearing combat gear and gave indications of possible white-supremacist involvement," Paprota said.

Police also found a cache of weapons at the scene, including an AK-47, a Walther P38 9mm handgun, eight 30-round high-capacity magazines, one 100-round drum magazine and assorted ammunition, the chief said.

Post, 42, was taken to police headquarters and charged with first-degree unlawful possession of weapons and certain persons not to possess weapons, including other charges.

Post was then transported to Ocean County Jail in Toms River in lieu of $400,000 cash bail.

Post wore a Nazi uniform as a teenager and often goose-stepped around the Hamilton Township neighborhood the family lived in. Both he and his brother Joseph were connected to the 1995 murder of Andrew Whited. White was found frozen in the woods with 29 stab wounds, according the Investigation Discovery documentary "Evil Kin: Brothers in Arms"

Charges are pending against the second man, a 38-year-old from Hamilton, Paprota said.

The task force was made up of law enforcement officers from the Lacey Township Police Department with the assistance of the Ocean Township Police Department, the New Jersey State Police, the Ocean County Sheriff’s Department, the New Jersey State Park Police, and the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife.

The vehicle belonging to Post was impounded for further processing, the chief said.

The multi-agency task force that led to the arrest was formed three weeks ago by the Lacey Township Police Department due to the increasing trespassing by persons in off-road vehicles, fire hazards, and criminal activity within the rural wooded areas west of the Garden State Parkway in Lacey Township.

Lacey Lieutenant Michael DiBella has commanded the operation and will continue to coordinate the details in the weeks to come, the chief said.

Crazy stuff. Good thing it ended so calmly.

I'm still wondering what his white Supremacist ties are all about. we haven't had a Klan rally here in over 25 years, and I don't know of any other groups nearby. I have heard of a militia south of here about 30 miles.

Kind of a misleading headline imo. The fact that he was/is a racist has little to do with the story. The fact that he is a convicted felon (murder) does.

It is also kind of funny how we (or the news) labels things. ie 30 round high capacity magazine. If it is for the AK47, I believe a 30 round mag is the standard capacity. A rifle and a pistol is called a cache of weapons. I call it a poor start to a fun day. If I'm going out for a day of shooting in the forest, I'm likely to have 8-10 guns of my own plus what my buddies have.

What that particular article did say was that he was also found with a tarp, shovels, and a rope. What was he going to use them for? My guess would be to murder someone and bury them there.

Yea a cache of weapons is an outrageous term to use.

TheQuig wrote:

What that particular article did say was that he was also found with a tarp, shovels, and a rope. What was he going to use them for? My guess would be to murder someone and bury them there.

Digging up a Christmas tree early?