New Jersey Hospital Worker Arrested, Charged After Police Find 39 Guns and Ammo in His Office

A New Jersey hospital worker has been arrested after 39 guns were found in his office closet.

This past Sunday, officers from the Secaucus Police Department and authorities from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations arrested 46-year-old Reuven Alonalayoff at Newark International Airport over a load of guns he had stored in his office at Hudson Regional Hospital.

Eleven handguns, 27 rifles and shotguns, along with a semi-automatic rifle, were all found by police when they went into Alonalayoff’s office. Alonalayoff also had high-capacity magazines for the handgun and rifle.

Police arrived at the hospital after receiving a report that a bomb was in the hospital. After going through and screening the hospital, bomb-detecting dogs “gave a positive indication” that there was some sort of threat in Alonalayoff’s office closet.

Alonalayoff worked as a marketing director for the hospital, and he’s been charged with possession of an assault firearm and two counts of possession of a high-capacity magazine. There are no details about how Alonalayoff obtained the weapons or how they were brought into the closet.