A Florida man accused of transporting suitcases full of guns and ammunition through the New Jersey rail system was indicted on Wednesday, authorities said.

According to prosecutors, a New Jersey Transit police officer patrolling Newark Penn Station noticed an unattended zebra-print suitcase near the Newark subway entrance on Jan. 3 and called for a K9 unit.

Inside that bag was a Girsan Regard MC handgun with a fully loaded 18-round magazine, an AK-47-style rifle with a round in its chamber and multiple loaded magazines, along with an AR-style magazine and four boxes filled with .223 caliber bullets, authorities said.

Train station surveillance video allegedly showed Jeffrey O. Kennerk, 34, leaving that bag behind and carrying a maroon suitcase to an Amtrak ticket window. Cops learned he was headed toward the Trenton Transit Center, where a pair of officers encountered Kennerk and asked to see his ticket.

The suspect showed police a valid transit pass, but it wasn’t for the train he was on, prosecutors said. He was told to wait for another train that was arriving in an hour.

While he was waiting, cops in Trenton were notified of “a person of interest wanted for weapons possession in Newark” and moved in on Kennerk.

Inside the suitcase he was still carrying, police allegedly discovered weapons including an AR-15-style rifle, several handguns and a second rifle with tissue wrapped around its trigger, as well as silencers and loads of ammunition including hollow point bullets.

The second rifle, according to prosecutors, appeared to have been booby-trapped.

“The officer placed the muzzle into the suitcase pointed at the ground and attempted to remove one of the handkerchiefs to render it safe, at which time the firearm discharged without the officer engaging the trigger,” the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office claimed in its indictment.

No injuries were reported.

“This defendant allegedly hauled a small arsenal of deadly weapons and ammunition through busy transit stations, and on a train filled with passengers,” according to Attorney General Matthew Platkin. “If not for the outstanding police work done in this matter, we can only imagine where this defendant and these weapons would have ended up.”

Charges against Kennerk include possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, unlawful possession of an assault firearm and aggravated assault. It’s unclear what he planned to do with the portable arsenal.

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