Scott “Spider” Brannigan (
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This day-care center was armed to the teeth.
Authorities yesterday smashed a gun-dealing ring operated by members of three violent Brooklyn motorcycle gangs — including a man who allegedly sold high-powered weapons and stored explosives at the Queens home where his wife runs a licensed day-care center.
Scott “Spider” Brannigan, 61, even negotiated the $2,000 sale of an operational black-powder cannon in April during a meeting with an undercover cop at the Belle Harbor residence he shares with his wife, Donna, a criminal complaint claims.
Brannigan is registered with the city Health Department as an “assistant” at Donna’s Beach Bag Babies day-care center — and also is an alleged “1 percent” member of the biker gang the Forbidden Ones, committed to living outside of mainstream society.
Seven other “1 percenters” in his and two other Brooklyn-based cycle gangs — the Dirty Ones and the Trouble Makers — also were charged in the Brooklyn federal court complaint.
Over two years, Brannigan and the others allegedly sold 41 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and the cannon — which the Forbidden Ones had been posting at their clubhouse door “ready to be fired against infiltrators,” authorities said.
The firearms included two AK-47 assault rifles, a Tec-9 assault pistol and a .243-caliber rifle with night-vision scope.
Brannigan is accused of personally selling 14 handguns, a rifle, a shotgun and more than 1,600 rounds of ammo, along with the cannon.
In raids yesterday at the gangs’ headquarters and members’ homes, agents seized 20 more guns, cocaine, heroin and marijuana, authorities said.
And they seized seven “improvised explosive devices” from the Brannigan home’s garage on Beach 128th Street — next to the back yard where the day-care kids play, said authorities and sources.
Brannigan’s wife “was very nice. He’s nuts, though,” said a neighbor.
Another neighbor, whom Brannigan allegedly attacked with a chain said, “It’s like living in ‘The Twilight Zone.’ ”
Authorities said Brannigan was among Forbidden Ones who last year attacked two civilians outside a tattoo parlor, then assaulted responding cops with knives, brass knuckles and a baseball bat.
Court records claim the Forbidden Ones last year plotted to kill a driver who fatally struck a member. Gang “Supreme President,” José “Rusty” Perez allegedly ordered a member secretly working as a government informant to do the hit.
Also charged in the gun-trafficking case were Nestor Cardena, Miguel Maisonet, Frank Miranda, Samuel Moya, Keith Terry and Jondale Willis.
Additional reporting by Kenneth Garger and Jessica Simeone