Man Arrested on Charge of Plotting to Behead NYPD Commissioner

**Jackalope** · 03-06-07, 08:29 AM

Man Arrested on Charge of Plotting to Behead NYPD Commissioner

Monday, March 05, 2007

NEW YORK — Authorities said Monday they had uncovered a plot to behead commissioner Raymond Kelly and bomb police headquarters in an attempt to avenge the fatal shooting of Sean Bell, the young man gunned down by the NYPD on his wedding day.

David Brown, 47, was arrested Monday on a charge of criminal solicitation after he offered an undercover officer $65,000 to kill Kelly and blow up One Police Plaza, said Paul J. Browne, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public information.

"I want his head chopped off," Brown told the undercover officer in a taped conversation.

Brown, who's currently behind bars at Rikers Island on a separate charge, asked a man to contact someone who was willing to undertake the contract killing. That led to the undercover officer making contact with Brown, who promised to pay $15,000 for the hit and another $50,000 for the bombing, police said.

Police said in two taped telephone conversations and one meeting that took place at Rikers in late February, Brown told the undercover officer that he was "fed up with the case where the guy got shot 50 times."

Brown was referring to Bell, the 23-year-old Queens man whom police shot to death on his wedding day in November. Two of Bell's friends were also shot but survived with serious injuries. Police have said 50 shots were fired in the incident. A grand jury is considering possible charges against the five officers involved.

In the taped conversations, Brown blamed Kelly for not taking the "initiative to prosecute the officers. That kind of got me frustrated to the point where I want him murdered."

Brown was convicted in 2001 of trying to kill his wife, and he was serving time in Rikers for violation of an order of protection for the same woman.

Police said the Brooklyn man has been convicted previously on 30 charges — 14 of them felonies that included five violent crimes.

Police said Brown was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. Police did not have the name of his lawyer.

**E-man** · 03-06-07, 12:44 PM

I just dont know what to say. I mean I had some possible funny things but this is a seriuous topic and as such no humor from me.
Glad they arrested him and hope he fries.