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Guns, drugs, gator seized in Poughkeepsie

Originally published: July 13, 2012 4:40 PM
Updated: July 13, 2012 10:30 PM
By NEWSDAY.COM

Brothers John and Paul Simmons were arrested Friday

Photo credit: Town of Poughkeepsie Police | Brothers John and Paul Simmons were arrested Friday by the Town of Poughkeepsie police at the Shady Brook Mobile Home Park for criminal weapons possession, drug possession, and illegally possessing a wild animal, a gator. (July 13, 2012)

Police netted a stash of drugs, a cache of guns and a lone alligator when they raided a mobile home this week, the Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department said.

Neighbors at the Shady Brook Mobile Home Park on Manchester Road complained of brazen, dangerous behavior from the trailer where brothers John and Paul Simmons lived, according to police. The brothers, neighbors said, fired off handguns...

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