A report of a man showing off a loaded firearm inside a Wilton Home Depot touched off an investigation that ended with deputies searching a Milton residence and finding a cache of illegal weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a shotgun reported stolen years earlier. Michael R. Mundell, 32, now faces 20 listed counts tied to the discoveries.
According to Newport Dispatch, the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office received the report at 9:38 p.m. on November 10, 2026, after Mundell allegedly showed a loaded firearm equipped with a large-capacity ammunition feeding device to another employee at the Home Depot in Wilton. That report set the investigation in motion, and the sheriff's office has confirmed the broad strokes of what followed: deputies say a report of a person with a weapon at the Home Depot led to Mundell's arrest, according to WNYT.
Investigators obtained a warrant and searched Mundell's residence, a step the station's report confirms took place after the Home Depot complaint. Per Newport Dispatch, that search turned up three illegal handguns, three assault weapons, and eight large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition — a quantity the same account corroborates in describing the stockpile uncovered at the home.
Stolen Shotgun Traced Back to 2022
Among the firearms recovered was a shotgun that had been reported stolen in the town of Malta, New York, in 2022, according to Newport Dispatch.
Mundell was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, a class C felony, along with 15 counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, class D felonies, and four counts of criminal possession of a firearm, class E felonies, per Newport Dispatch. New York's Penal Code includes criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree as a charge, according to the New York State Senate's published statute.
Arraignment and What Comes Next
Mundell was arraigned before Hon. Timothy M. Brown in Milton Town Court and was remanded to the Saratoga County Jail pending further proceedings, Newport Dispatch reports.
The case adds to a string of weapons-related prosecutions out of Saratoga County. Earlier this year, a Saratoga County man was sentenced to 12 years in a separate case involving drug trafficking and a ghost gun manufacturing operation, according to poststar.com. That case is distinct from Mundell's and does not establish any broader local pattern, but it underscores that firearms cases have drawn significant attention from county prosecutors in recent months.
