Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with setting a bomb in New Jersey and two in New York City, one of which injured 31 people.
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The pair appeared to remove the explosive device from the luggage before taking the bag with them. “He talked about pressure cooker bombs and pipe bombs and the streets as they planned to run a mile”.
NYPD chief of counterterrorism James Waters said the two men were “not wanted” but needed for “informational purposes only” and is requesting they get in contact.
The federal charging documents say Rahami had been buying components online for months, shipping them all to his workplace, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston told All Things Considered.
When these types of complaints come in, they usually go into the FBI’s Guardian Threat Tracking System, which prompts a limited level of investigation and surveillance. They said a second phone shipped to the same place was used in the bomb that blew up in Chelsea.
Federal prosecutors in NY noted that while they filed charges against Rahami on Tuesday, he remains in the custody of state officials in New Jersey, who initially arrested him after Monday’s gunfight.
Rahami was arrested Monday after a shootout with police in Linden, N.J. He is being held on $5.2-million bail, and faces state charges of attempted murder of police officers. FILE- In this September 18, 2016 file photo, crime scene investigators work the scene of a pressure cooker bomb explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, in NY.
Rahami was arrested on Monday after an intense manhunt in the New York City metropolitan area.
The FBI charged Rahami with using a weapon of mass destruction Tuesday.
The wife of the Afghan-born US citizen charged in last weekend’s bombings in New York City and New Jersey has returned to the United States, a law enforcement official said, as a defense lawyer pressed to get access to the accused man.
The man accused of planting and detonating bombs in NY and New Jersey is still unconscious after being shot seven times by police before he was apprehended Monday, according to law enforcement officials.
It is unclear how much information the report contained about Rahami’s activities during the 11 months he was in Pakistan, starting in April 2013, and about any other trips he made while overseas.
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Like thousands of Afghan nationals, Rahami’s family lived in Quetta, Pakistan, as refugees before coming to the U.S.in 1995, Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Nafees Zakriya said.
