An ex-con was caught with a gun, 50 bullets and a clown mask inside a Brooklyn Human Resources Administration building, authorities said Tuesday.
Rahmeek Younger, 30, was arrested after another visitor to the HRA office on Clermont Ave. near Atlantic Ave. in Fort Greene allegedly saw the gun and mask in his bag about 2 p.m. Monday. The visitor told an HRA peace officer stationed inside the building, who called 911.
When cops responded, Younger began to run and needed to be tasered before he was taken into custody, a spokesman for Local 237, which represents HRA security guards, said. He flailed his arms and pushed the witness and cops, according to prosecutors.
The gun and clown mask were found in his bag along with a magazine with five bullets, an ammunition box with 35 bullets and a plastic bag holding 10 more bullets, according to court papers.
An NYPD spokesman confirmed that a loaded .22-caliber Ruger semiautomatic firearm and a mask were recovered. Younger was charged with weapon possession.
He was ordered held on $150,000 bail during his arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court Tuesday.
Younger’s lawyer, Alex McHugh of Brooklyn Defenders Services, questioned whether cops had the legal right to search his client’s bag.
Younger was released from prison on April 4 after serving a six year sentence for carrying a gun on the subway, authorities said. He also did a four-year stint in prison after he was convicted of robbery in 2007, records show.
In December, the HRA suspended two of their peace officers after they were caught on video wrestling with Jazmine Headley and yanking the young woman’s 1-year-old son from her grasp as they took her into custody for sitting on the floor at a welfare center on Bergen St. in Boerum Hill after waiting for hours to resolve a benefit question.
After this high-profile black eye for the agency, Department of Social Services Commissioner Steven Banks ordered that “unless there is an immediate safety threat,” HRA security must call in a supervisor before notifying NYPD “to attempt to defuse the situation by addressing a client need.”
He ordered de-escalation retraining for HRA peace officers and directed the private security firms that the city hires to give similar training to their staff.
