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A police-impersonation investigation turned up a massive weapons cache — including a grenade launcher and assault rifles — in a woman’s Brooklyn brownstone, cops said Thursday.
Cops found six assault rifles, eight other rifles, six handguns, three shotguns, two flare guns, the grenade launcher, two drum magazines and about 10,000 rounds of ammunition when they raided the Bath Beach apartment of Helen Chin, 53, Wednesday morning, authorities said.
The NYPD’s Police Impersonation Unit was at the home looking into a report that Chin’s husband, James Lee, had a forged police ID, sources said. Lee, it turned out, died in July.
Although Lee legally owned seven handguns and four rifles, his widow never surrendered those weapons or tried to get her own permit, according to police.
Police executed a search warrant on Chin’s home on 19th Ave. near Benson Ave. at about 6:30 a.m.
She’s charged with felony weapon possession.
Cops did not find a forged ID in the apartment, sources said.