An employee at a Green Brook medical facility where the defendant was seeking treatment for his injury called police.
Green Brook police found a weapon and handcuffs in the defendant's vehicle. (File photo) GREEN BROOK -- A South Plainfield man who was arrested on weapons charges after accidentally shooting himself in the foot while camping has been indicted.
Patrick M. Monahan, 55, was indicted in Somerset County Superior Court on second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, second-degree certain persons not to possess weapons and a disorderly person's offense.
On Sept. 10 at 8:22 a.m., Green Brook police responded to a Green Brook medical care facility located on Route 22 on a report of a male, later identified as Monahan, who was seeking medical treatment for a gunshot wound to his right foot, according to an affidavit filed by Green Brook Detective Daniel Lanzafama.
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Monahan, who was later transported to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital-New Brunswick, told police he accidentally shot himself in the foot while camping in a wooded area in Piscataway, the affidavit said. He also told officers the weapon was in his vehicle parked outside the medical facility, the affidavit said.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for his vehicle and found a loaded Para 1911 .45 caliber pistol, two loaded magazines, two bullet-proof vests and a pair of handcuffs, the affidavit said. Monahan didn't have a New Jersey Firearms Identification Card and he is not employed by any law enforcement agency, the affidavit said.
Monahan is being held in the Somerset County Jail in lieu of a $75,000 cash or bond bail.
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