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NYPD Allege Plan to Blow Up Wash. Square Arch

The latest in the explosives bust of the rich heroin users in Greenwich Village a few weeks ago: Police say Aaron Greene planned to blow up the Washington Square arch.

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Greene made some admissions after his arrest and said he had stored some weapons with a member of law enforcement:

Police also searched the home of Greene’s friend in Orangeburg, N.Y., and found 21 guns, brass knuckles, two stun guns and a switchblade knife. Browne said police went there after Greene said he had given some of his weapons to the man.

Greene's friend is a suspended prison guard -- he was suspended in 2010 for possession of cocaine and fleeing a police vehicle.

Greene's girlfriend, Morgan Gliedman, went into labor when being arrested. The baby was drug-free -- she stopped using when she learned she was pregnant. The Court has granted her bail with conditions she get drug treatment and wear an ankle monitor. She entered a 30 day rehab following the hearing.

The newborn, named Melody Sunshine, is now being cared for by Gliedman's mother, Susyn Schops Gliedman, a broker, and father, Dr. Paul Gliedman, head of radiation oncology at Beth Israel Brooklyn.

Gliedman is on probation for drug possession following a February 2012 bust. Greene was sentenced to five months in the case. She also has a pending felony grand larceny/credit card theft case.

On February 17, Gliedman met a man at Johnny's Bar in the Village and went to his Midtown apartment where she allegedly took off with a backpack containing his laptop, cellphone, wallet and credit cards, which she used to make purchases. Five days after the robbery, on February 22, she and her Harvard-graduate boyfriend, Greene, were arrested for possession drugs and found with a .223-caliber rifle.

The couple were spotted with another woman i