U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein on Wednesday night noted that court rules require an arrested person be brought before the court “without unnecessary delay”.
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Sources tell Eyewitness News that Ahmad Khan Rahami rode a train into Manhattan and placed the pressure cookers in Chelsea while possibly carrying the pipe bombs in his backpack.
According to the court complaint, Rahami’s journal included a passage that said: “You [USA Government] continue your [unintelligible] slaught [er]” against the mujahideen, or holy warriors, “be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Sham [Syria], Palestine”.
On Tuesday, Rahami’s father said he called police during that altercation, saying his son was “doing bad”.
Rahami was injured by police after a shootout in Linden hours after he was named the suspect in Saturday’s bombings.
Another police officer was grazed by a bullet.
Both officers were treated and released from a hospital.
Investigators haven’t been able to question a man charged with setting off bombs in NY and New Jersey because he’s too severely injured from his shootout with police, a law enforcement official said Thursday as the man’s father said he’d warned federal authorities about the man’s interest in jihadist material. Ahmad Rahami, an Afghan-born USA citizen was shot and severely injured during his arrest Monday.
Asia Bibi Rahami, the wife of the man charged with the bombing, has returned to the United States and has met with law enforcement officials.
The official who discussed Rahami’s condition was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Another friend confirmed this story, telling CNN he remembers getting a unusual phone call from Rahami, who said he was stuck in Pakistan and needed money.
Before he was known as a bombing suspect, Ahmad Rahami was a struggling foreign-born Afghan-American straddling two disparate worlds that would ultimately collide. He emailed a congressman seeking help because his pregnant wife had an expired passport during a 2014 visit to Pakistan.
In court papers, a public defender sought a court appearance for Rahami, an Afghan-born US citizen, so he can hear the federal terrorism charges against him.
– Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Josh Cornfield in Trenton, New Jersey, contributed to this report.
Padilla told students Thursday at a Linden school that he was “a bit nervous” when he confronted Rahami, but “I can only say: I was just doing my job”.
“They’re not in any jeopardy of being arrested”, Jim Watters, chief of the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism unit, said yesterday.
Parker says all he wants is a good job.
Police say they’ve received 406 phone calls of suspicious packages throughout the five boroughs between 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Monday.
Statement reported by ABC News from Maria Mena., the second women: “I have cooperated with authorities and told them all I know about Ahmad Rahami”.
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A pair of ethnic Chechen brothers killed three people and injured more than 260 others at the Boston Marathon in 2013 with homemade pressure-cooker bombs similar to those used in this weekend’s attacks.
