Thieves ripped off everything but the kitchen sink — and the guns — from the gun range owned by one of the “Kooks of Hazard,” who were arrested last month near the Holland Tunnel with an arsenal of weapons, a close friend told The Post.
John Cramsey’s Higher Ground Tactical in Emmaus, Pa., was closed for good on July 22, according to pal Lyn Baker, who says the range has been burglarized at least three times since the owner’s incarceration.
“This is John’s friend Lyn. My apologies to all members for the short notice. As of Friday, July 22nd . . . Higher Ground will be permanently closed. Thank you for your patronage,” she wrote on the gun range’s Facebook page.
Thieves made off with several TVs, refrigerators, some tactical gear, clothing and a propane unit during a July 19 heist, Baker said.
But they didn’t get their hands on any guns, she said, adding. “The weapons are safe. They are secure.”
Pennsylvania State Police are currently investigating, according to The Morning Call, but were not available Sunday to confirm the other two alleged break-ins. Baker could not provide specific dates of those incidents.
Cramsey, who lost his 20-year-old daughter to a heroin overdose back in February, was arrested in a souped-up SUV on June 21 while driving with a cache of weapons as he and a group of pals drove toward the Holland Tunnel to rescue a teen from a heroin den in the Big Apple, police said.
But the 50-year-old father never got the chance to save the girl, as he was stopped on the New Jersey side of the tunnel, in a fiasco memorialized on The Post’s front page as the “Kooks of Hazard.”
Authorities initially pulled Cramsey over for a cracked windshield on his car, which was covered with decals touting his Second Amendment rights.
A search of the vehicle turned up several weapons, including a loaded .45-caliber handgun, an AR-15 assault rifle, a 12-gauge shotgun and four semiautomatic handguns as well as 2,000 rounds of ammo and tactical gear, police said.
Cramsey is still behind bars at Hudson County Jail in New Jersey because he is unable to pay his $75,000 cash bail.
“His attorney told me the other day it’s just a waiting game,” Baker said.
That lawyer, James Lisa, said Cramsey has been denied a “reasonable bail” three times and the case has now been turned over to the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Lisa added that he has a meeting scheduled with the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in hopes of finding a “possible resolution” that will get his client out of the slammer.