Also, the Federal Bureau of Investigation took five people into custody following the explosion that took place in Chelsea in Manhattan on Saturday night.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami has lived at that address in Elizabeth, which is above a fried chicken store.
Authorities converged on the apartment just before 6 a.m. Officials say that he is of Afghan descent and could be armed and unsafe. “We need to get this guy right away”. New York’s emergency management department says that New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains are being held at New York Penn Station.
Physical evidence links Rahami to explosive devices in NY and New Jersey, the source told NBC News.
As part of the inquiry into Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan, the FBI pulled over a auto described by officials as “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” in Brooklyn on Sunday night.
In other developments, service has resumed hours after the explosion in Elizabeth.
And on Sunday night, five explosive devices were found near an Elizabeth, New Jersey, train station.
Two homeless men found the backpack with the five pipe bombs in the city Sunday and saved lives by reporting it to police, Mayor Christian Bollwage said. They looked inside and found pipes and wires. There were no immediate reports of any injuries or damage. Bollwage said two robots trying to diffuse the bomb cut a wire and blew it up.
FBI Newark said a suspicious package contained “multiple improvised explosive devices”. “I don’t believe the City of Elizabeth at this stage – was a target”, he said, according to WUNF.
New Jersey Transit says Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line trains began rolling at 5:30 a.m. Monday. Amtrak said 2,400 passengers were affected. Also Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Officials said the two incidents did not appear to be connected, but they weren’t ruling anything out.
The men were heading over the Verrazano Bridge from Staten Island when they were stopped Sunday night. Bollwage said it “could have hurt a lot of people”.
The FBI is looking to transport the remaining bombs found in Elizabeth to the FBI facility Quantico, Virginia, for evaluation, according to the New York Times.
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New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio said the blast in Chelsea was an “intentional act” but he insisted that there was no credible terrorist threat to the city and there was no link with the New Jersey explosion.
