She wouldn’t provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation said five people in the vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan.
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With so little known about the attack, officials said they would deploy an additional 1,000 state police and National Guard to sensitive areas such as transportation hubs.
No one has been charged with any crime, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said. As many as five people were detained after the traffic stop, according to ABC News and The New York Post.
The FBI says it stopped the vehicle after it had crossed the bridge traveling from Staten Island to Bay Ridge.
Late Sunday, more suspicious devices were found near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
A source tells CBS News three cellphones with the two NY devices and one associated with the Seaside Park device are described as flip phones.
NY went on full alert, deploying almost 1,000 extra state police and National Guardsmen to airports, bus terminals and subway stations as President Barack Obama arrived in the city ahead of Tuesday’s opening of the UN General Assembly.
“Now for all New Yorkers, a central message we want to give today is be vigilant”, de Blasio said during a news conference.
Investigators were probing possible links between the attacks, which came as world leaders begin converging on NY for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
The Democratic mayor added that those in the city will see a “a very substantial” police presence this week which he described as “bigger than ever”.
“It’s premature to say what would happen next”, de Blasio said. “You will see an even stronger presence now”.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we are increasing security at high-profile locations across the city, and all state agencies continue to remain on alert”, Cuomo said in a statement.
Stepped-up security across the city is common as world leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which is underway. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, second left, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, second right, talk with area residents Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, while touring the site of an explosion that occurred on Saturday night in the.
Appearing on Good Morning America, de Blasio declined to answer a question about the degree to which more similar attacks were likely, but instead said that the NYPD had access to “the largest anti-terror force of any police force in the country”, which he suggested would provide ample protection for his residents.
Sources told the New York Times that investigators stopped a auto in Brooklyn on the Belt Parkway near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday night (18 September) and took five people to an Federal Bureau of Investigation office in Manhattan for questioning.
The devices were found late on Sunday, a day after a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded in New York City’s Chelsea district, wounding 29 people, and a pipe bomb went off along the route of a New Jersey charity run without hurting anyone. A personal motivation? What was it? “We know there was a bombing”.
NY police are seeking a 28-year-old man for questioning in connection with an explosion that rocked Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night. The race was cancelled and no one was injured.
“This was an explosive” containing as many as five devices, Bollwage said. Only one of the three pipe bombs detonated and no one was injured.
An investigation is leading law enforcement officials to believe that there are signs of a possible terror cell in the two states, according to CNN.
A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a second device officers are investigating a few blocks from the scene of a Manhattan explosion appears to be a pressure cooker attached to wiring and a cellphone. The FBI’s Newark office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Meanwhile, a law enforcement official said federal investigators had discounted a claim of responsibility on the social blogging service Tumblr.
