Plot to Behead NYPD Chief Busted

NEW YORK — Authorities said Monday they had uncovered a plot to behead commissioner Raymond Kelly and bomb police headquarters in an attempt to avenge the fatal shooting of Sean Bell, the young man gunned down by the NYPD on his wedding day.

David Brown, 47, was arrested Monday on a charge of criminal solicitation after he offered an undercover officer $65,000 to kill Kelly and blow up One Police Plaza, said Paul J. Browne, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public information.

"I want his head chopped off," Brown told the undercover officer in a taped conversation.