A criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday in Newark, New Jersey, shortly after a virtually identical filing was unsealed in NY.
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Hours later, a police officer in Linden, New Jersey, recognized Rahami after finding him sleeping in a doorway, prompting a confrontation and shootout that led to his capture.
Federal investigators said that Rahami purchased components for the bombs on eBay, and had them shipped to a business where he worked in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. One didn’t go off.
Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in NY and New Jersey and hoped “the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets”, authorities said as they filed charges against him.
He was also father to a child with his high-school girlfriend. Authorities were trying to determine if they were connected.
“The sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets”, the journal declared.
Rahami was shot several times in his final fight with police.
“Death to your oppression”, the entry ended. It is unclear whether Rahami’s colleagues had reported him to authorities.
USA prosecutors have formally charged Ahmad Rahami, the suspect who was arrested after weekend bombings in NY and New Jersey in which 29 people were injured.
The criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday at a federal court in Manhattan.
“But they check [for] nearly two months”. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.
AP spokesman Paul Colford said the news cooperative told law enforcement officials about Rahami’s work at the Cranbury facility. Family court records show Rahami also worked for a security firm in Parsippany, New Jersey, in 2008.
In Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was executing a search warrant, Mayor Christian Bollwage told CNN earlier.
In addition to the federal charges, New Jersey state prosecutors from Union County have charged Rahami with five counts of attempted first-degree murder for firing at police officers and two second-degree weapons counts.
The bomb was a pressure cooker device, packed with ball bearings and steel nuts, placed in a dumpster and detonated by a timed device – similar to a second pressure cooker bomb discovered four blocks away.
MacArthur represents the district where a pipe bomb blew up before a military charity run Saturday in Seaside Park. Another bomb went off in NY, injuring 29.
Police in New York City and New Jersey are looking for the same 28-year-old man for questioning after a series of bombings. He also mentioned Nidal Hasan, the former U.S. Army officer who went on a deadly shooting rampage in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas.
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Authorities are scrutinising Rahami’s extensive travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and analysing a notebook that reportedly contained writings about al-Qaeda.
The officials were not authorized to publicly reveal details of the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
He is married to a Pakistani woman and brought her to the U.S. as his wife, said the official.
On the brief form, she indicated that she was requesting full custody because the “defendant has been charged with police attempted murder and is now under protective services after possible terrorist related activity in NYC”.
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Customers at a fried chicken restaurant owned by Rahami’s father where he had worked said his demeanor changed after taking trips overseas and he started wearing more ethnic clothing. The officer was saved by his bulletproof vest.
