At his arraignment this morning, an attorney for the man accused with his girlfriend of stockpiling weapons and manufacturing explosive powder to blow up the Washington Arch said that there was no such plan, and that heroin is to blame. "They are truly pathetic junkies, from nice families," said Isabelle Kirshner, an attorney for Aaron Greene. "They are an illustration of the scourge of addiction…There were no plans ever to blow up the Washington Square Arch."

Kirshner's comments, reported by the Post, echo those of NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, who told the New York Times that the couple were "admitted heroin addicts."

Greene, 31, and his girlfriend, 27-year-old Morgan Gliedman, were arrested on December 29 after police found two shotguns, ammunition, "The Terrorist Encyclopedia," and seven grams of the explosive powder HMTD in their stately apartment on West 9th Street. No drugs were found, but last February the couple was arrested after police found weapons and drugs in their car parked in Washington Heights.

Gliedman, who went to The Dalton School and whose father is the director of radiation oncology at Beth Israel, was also charged with stealing a man's laptop, wallet, and credit cards after going home with him last year. According to court documents, Gliedman told police that "Defendant Greene made her go into the bar, and go home with 'that guy.' She took the laptop to pay the drug dealers in Washington Heights."

The Post also recounts Gliedman's statements to police after they knocked on her apartment door:

"My name is Morgan Gliedman," the statements record her telling cops during the 6 a.m. arrest at 8 West 9th St.

"I live here with my boyfriend Aaron Greene. He's home. Come in. I know about the case," she told cops, referring to unrelated grand larceny charges concerning her alleged theft of electronics and a wallet from an acquaintance she'd met at a bar and gone home with overnight in February.

"I was told the situation was taken care of," she told cops of the alleged larceny, according to her statements. Three hours later, at the Midtown South precinct, "Defendant stated she had not realized the extent of defendant Greene's collection of weapon and ammunition. "After the Newtown shooting, defendant Greene told her they ought to go buy more guns before the law is changed," she told cops.

Greene, whose father runs a prominent architectural restoration firm, has a long criminal history that includes the eight months he spent in jail for stabbing a bouncer on the Lower East Side with an eleven-inch knife. He also allegedly kept weapons with his childhood friend, a corrections officer, in Orangeburg, New York. According to local police, Greene had an affinity for explosives growing up.

Gliedman gave birth to her and Greene's child, Melody Sunshine, shortly after she was arrested, and is currently in rehab per her terms for bail. Greene remains in custody. Curiously, the Post's report today makes no mention of Harvard University, Nazis, or Occupy Wall Street.