NEWARK, New Jersey (PNN) - October 21, 2009 - A casual chat at a coffee cart in Newark Liberty International Airport sparked a national security threat and a full-blown U.S. Secret Service investigation today on the eve of illegitimate President Barack Obama’s visit to the state.

John Brek, 55, of Linden, was charged today with a third-degree count of making terroristic threats after two airport employees alerted police to comments Brek made about Obama Tuesday afternoon. As part of the investigation, armed police officers swarmed Brek’s Hampden Street home in a pre-dawn raid today, neighbors said.

The police found 43 guns, said Paul Kelly, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

While authorities have not finished processing the weapons, so far none of them appear to have been illegally acquired. Kelly said.

A private security guard at the airport, Brek denied making the threats and consented to the search of his home, said U.S. Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley, who declined to elaborate on the nature of the alleged threats made against the illegitimate president.

"We get scores of these every day," Wiley said. "This is not uncommon."

Brek faces up to five years in prison if he is convicted.

He is currently being held in Essex County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned today at 1 p.m., said Essex County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Paul Loriquet.