Armed Man Wearing Ballistic Vest Arrested Inside NYPD Stationhouse

A drunken man who walked into a Brooklyn NYPD stationhouse complaining someone was following him and stealing his mail was busted when officers realized he was armed and wearing a bullet-resistant vest, police sources said.

Daniel Gedna is charged with gun and ammunition possession, as well as the unlawful wearing of body armor and possession of an illegal feeding device — an extended magazine for one of the guns.

Gedna, 45, showed up at the 75th Precinct stationhouse in East New York shortly after noon Monday and asked to speak to a detective because his mail was being stolen and he believed he was being followed, police sources said.

Gedna, who lives a mile from the stationhouse, was given a number to call. A short time later he said he really needed to speak to someone face to face.

That’s when officers saw he had a gun in his holster, sources said.

Gedna said the gun’s license had lapsed but when police realized he was also clad in a bullet-resistant vest under his clothes and that he had a second gun on him, this one with an illegal extended magazine, they moved in and arrested him, sources said.

Both guns were loaded.

Gedna claimed he usually only drinks on the weekend, that he works as an armed security guard and that he intended no harm, sources said.

“I love the NYPD,” one source quoted him saying.

Gedna’s arraignment was still pending Wednesday in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

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