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Cops: Man with gun on LIRR train is off-duty cop

Police who stopped and searched a westbound Long Island Rail Road train in Merrick Wednesday after a 911 caller reported seeing a man with a gun at a nearby station found that the gun-toting passenger was an off-duty police officer.

A Nassau County police spokesman told Newsday "the passenger was an off-duty cop," but could not specify the agency that employed the officer. "It was verified...

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