NEW YORK — A “developing threat” to New York City’s Jewish community was averted by the arrests of two armed men at Penn Station, New York City Police Department Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Saturday.
Christopher Brown, 22, of Riverhead, Long Island, and Matthew Mahrer, 22, of the Upper West Side, were busted in the transit hub late Friday night, said police sources.
Brown, who was wearing a swastika armband when he was caught, was charged with making terroristic threats, harassment and weapons possession, said the sources. The weapon was a large hunting knife, the sources said.
