“The investigation is active and ongoing, and it is being investigated as an act of terror”, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in Lexington, Kentucky.
Advertisement
The arrest just hours after police issued a bulletin and photo of Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan who lived with Muslim family in an apartment in Elizabeth, New Jersey, over a fried-chicken restaurant owned by his father.
Ahmad Khan Rahami may have aimed to inflict carnage incognito, but he didn’t succeed for long in concealing his identity.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested yesterday in Linden, New Jersey and is accused of planting homemade explosive devices in several locations in NY and New Jersey over the weekend.
After bombings in NY and New Jersey, investigators say they want to talk with one man: Ahmad Khan Rahami.
Authorities suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami is responsible for the weekend bombings in NY and New Jersey that left dozens injured.
He stayed in Pakistan for a year between April 2013 and March 2014, spending time in a Taliban stronghold, CNN reported.
“I give law enforcement a lot of credit for less than 24 hours, apprehending Mr. Rahami”, Pence said Tuesday on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor”.
When officers responded, Rahami pulled out a handgun and opened fire, striking an officer in his protective vest over his chest. The Corpus Christi Police Officers Candidate Forum will take place Wednesday, September 21st.
He was listed in critical but stable condition, and police had not yet been able to interview him in depth, New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill said.
“I’m not sure what is happening, exactly”, he said.
Rahami is facing charges including five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer.
Federal charges in the bombings have yet to be filed. It wasn’t clear when Rahami would get an attorney.
The bombing spread fear across the NY area and revived anxiety about homegrown terrorism nationwide. An Afghan immigrant wanted in the bombings was captured Monday after being wounded in a gun battle with police.
Summit’s vice president of security services, Daniel Sepulveda, said Rahami last did work for the company in 2011 and left the job because he wanted an extended leave that didn’t coincide with his work schedule. “He would have had to accumuluate stuff. he cell phone he acquired over a year ago”, Townsend said, referring to the phone that Rahami used as a detonator. The lawsuit was terminated in 2012 after Mohammad Ruhami pleaded guilty to blocking police from enforcing the restrictions on the restaurant.
He worked at the family’s fried-chicken restaurant, where The New York Times quoted friends as saying that he started praying and wore traditional clothes after returning from Afghanistan. He’s a very friendly guy, that’s what’s so scary. “That’s what’s so scary”.
The bombing investigation began when a pipe bomb blew up Saturday morning in Seaside Park, New Jersey, before a charity race to benefit Marines. No one was injured.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged the 28-year-old Elizabeth resident, a USA citizen born if Afghanistan, with planting bombs in Manhattan, Seaside Park and Elizabeth over the weekend.
“Approximately 12 fingerprints” were recovered from the unexploded pressure cooker, according to court documents, with some lifted from duct tape and a cell phone triggering device.
New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were also being held up at New York Penn Station, according to authorities.
The shootout came after a weekend of fear and dread in NY and New Jersey. He was captured in Linden, New Jersey, after he was discovered sleeping in the doorway of a bar.
A dispute at the Rahami home had brought local law enforcement to the house at that time.
All five were questioned and released, Sweeney said.
He added: ‘Now they say he is a terrorist.
Advertisement
U.S. Rep. Albio Sires told The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record that Rahami had contacted his office in 2014 by email from Pakistan, where he was having a problem getting his wife into the country because of an expired passport.
