POUGHKEEPSIE – City of Poughkeepsie officers are being credited with taking a fully-automatic ghost gun off the streets on Tuesday afternoon. Police Captain Rich Wilson told Mid-Hudson News that officers responded to a reported dispute near Main and Rose Streets at approximately 2:15 p.m. and apprehended the armed gunman a few blocks away seven minutes later.
When officers responded to the report of a dispute, they were given a description of the two subjects by witnesses who said the men fled before the police arrived.
Using the descriptions provided, additional officers located two men that fit the description on Garden Street near the Financial Plaza parking deck. The men were detained and searched. One of the men, 22-year-old Nigel Miller, was found to be in possession of a loaded 9mm polymer handgun with no serial number, known as a “ghost gun”. The pistol, with a round in the chamber, was determined to have been modified with an illegal “switch,” making the pistol full-automatic.
Miller was charged with felony criminal possession of a weapon and held pending arraignment. Additional charges are being considered.
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