IDIOT GETS CAUGHT DRIVING AROUND THE BRONX WITH AN AK-47 & A TEC 9 IN THE BACKSEAT!

Three NYPD rookies - on the job only three days - cut their teeth last week by busting two people with an AK-47 assault rifle and other high-powered weapons in the backseat of their car, police said.

"They took three dangerous weapons and two dangerous people off the streets," said Assistant Chief Carlos Gomez, the top uniformed cop in the Bronx.

"Not bad for three rookies on their first week."

Police Officers Sean Kelly, Leonel Rivas and Thomas Olson - who graduated from the Police Academy Dec. 27 - and three senior officers pulled the car over during a routine vehicle safety check point at E. 169th St. and the Grand Concourse around 6 p.m. on Jan. 5.

The officers learned that the driver, Francisco Hamilton, 26, of South Carolina, was wanted on several New York City warrants after running his driver's license through their computer.

During a search of the car, they also found an unlabeled prescription drug bottle with several white pills inside, police said.

The cops arrested Hamilton and his passenger, Shauntel Anderson, 28, of the Bronx, and charged both with possession of a controlled substance, cops said.

After they impounded the car, a piece of red luggage in the back seat was opened and inside police said they discovered the AK-47 assault rifle, and two semiautomatic weapons - a Tec-9 and a 9-mm. pistol. The serial number had been scratched off the Tec-9, police said.

The cops were at that intersection as part of the NYPD's Impact Zone program within the 44th Precinct. Impact Zones are high-crime areas that are flooded with rookie cops in an effort to drive crime down. There are seven such Impact Zones within the borough, Gomez said.

The newly minted cops were under the direction of Sgts. Thomas Swicicki and Gabe Diaz and Police Officer Vladimir Tejera.

"This kind of good work is done every day by police officers in the Bronx," said Gomez. "They made an outstanding arrest."

Hamilton and Anderson were charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

Last year, 1,677 people were arrested and charged with gun possession in the Bronx.

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