The Washington Arch (NYPost)
The Nazi-loving Harvard grad busted with bomb-making materials in his Greenwich Village apartment was planning to blow up the Washington Square Arch with high-grade explosives, police officials said.
Aaron Greene, 31, who was indicted last week on felony charges of possessing explosives and firearms, was seen sprinkling the combustible powder on the sidewalk in Washington Square Park and hitting it with a rock, causing an explosion, friends told NYPD investigators.
Police suspect the material to be hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD), which was discovered along with shotguns and ammo in the Ninth Street apartment Greene shared with his girlfriend, Morgan Gliedman. Gliedman, a Dalton graduate who gave birth to Greene’s child shortly thereafter, was also arrested during the raid on Dec. 30.
Greene told investigators that he was keeping a large cache of weapons at the Rockland county home of his correction officer friend Daniel Whittaker, said Paul Browne, the department’s chief spokesman.
The stash included 21 guns, two stun guns, a switchblade knife and a set of brass knuckles, Browne said.
Law enforcement also characterized Greene as an Adolf Hitler-wannabe. Greene allegedly signed off on several letters with the lightning bolt symbol commonly associated with Hitler’s SS. In one missive, he repeatedly used the word “kill” and the phrase “kill them all,” sources said.
“Greene told his girlfriend’s parents that his grandfather was a Nazi during WWII,” said one law enforcement source.
Gliedman was arraigned Tuesday and released on $150,000 bail.