3 GUNS STOLEN FROM DEA DISPLAY

Three inoperable handguns have been stolen from displays in the Drug
Enforcement Agency Museum in Times Square, police said Thursday.

DEA agents reported that two Sig Saur 40-caliber handguns and a Rueger
45-caliber handgun were missing from the three-story museum at 1 Times
Square on Wednesday. The thefts, however, may have occurred as far
back as Dec. 17, according to the police report.

Two of the weapons were stolen from a simulated cocaine laboratory on
the museum's first floor, and the other was taken from a re-created
methamphetamine hotel cook room display on the second floor, said Bill
Grant, a DEA spokesman. Grant said the guns, which have been disabled
so they can't fire, were secured by screws and metal clasps to
furniture in the displays.

Police have secured videotapes from surveillance cameras in the museum
and will be reviewing them, Grant said.