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Updated 03/28/2010 09:57 AM

Police Recover Dozens Of Weapons In Brooklyn Home

By: NY1 News

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Four Brooklyn residents were arrested Saturday after police found 30 guns and nine other weapons in their home in Gravesend.

Thomas Siano, 57, his 58-year-old wife Kathleen Siano, his 29-year-old son Vincent Siano and 29-year-old family friend and tenant Michael Poole were arrested and charged with multiple charges of criminal possession of weapons.

Police found 10 handguns, two assault rifles, nine shotguns and nine rifles in the suspects' two-story home on West Street.

Authorities also found on the premises two Crossman air rifles, one umbrella with a dagger in the handle, one sword, one machete, three daggers and one hunting knife.

Numerous pills, a large amount of ammunition and ingredients for making ammunition were also found in the premises, according to police.

Sources said the weapons were not being sold.

The Sianos' house is directly across the street from P.S. 216, which teaches pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade students.

Neighbors said the family had a reputation for drunkenness and for being gun enthusiasts.

"It's outrageous and it's shocking. Right next to a school, when someone tells you that they find this kind of stuff in a house, especially when you have all these young kids around. They play ball on the streets," said one local.

"I knew them since they were kids, since they grew up. I knew the mother," said another. "All I knew was that they used to drink. They drink, that's all."

"I just don't think it's anything, other than they're just troublemakers," said a third.

Sources said the father and son seemed to be responsible for the guns.