The items were shipped to a business in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where Rahami worked until September 12.
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Bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami is now facing federal as well as state charges in connection with bombings in NY and New Jersey and a shootout with police.
Investigators have said the suitcase was left at West 27th Street in Manhattan by 28-year-old Mr Rahami.
Investigators say the younger Rahami planted bombs in NY and New Jersey, including one that injured 31 people in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.
Police investigating the bombings in NY and New Jersey have been saying for several days they were looking for the men, who they stressed were being sought as potential witnesses in the case, not as suspects.
Talking to reporters outside his home, Mohammad R. Rahami said he had called police on his son because he “stabbed my son” and “hit my wife”.
“We’re very much interested in speaking to them”. Rahami faces federal charges in both states stemming from a Saturday night bombing in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood that injured 31 people and a pair of blasts in New Jersey. Given the strength of the explosion, with bomb fragments found 650 feet from the blast site, officials said it was miraculous that no one was killed.
The bomb that had been in the suitcase did not explode.
The FBI said the two men saw a piece of luggage on the sidewalk, removed the improvised explosive device that was inside and then left with just the luggage. They added that 12 latent prints were found on the bomb, duct tape and a cell phone triggering device before tracing them to Rahami.
The United States has charged the man arrested over attacks in NY and New Jersey with bombing, property destruction and use of weapons of mass destruction.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said he will be moved to NY soon to face federal charges in the case.
The judge noted that court rules require an arrested person be brought before the court “without unnecessary delay”.
Rahami was wounded in the leg and captured after a shootout with police in Linden, N.J. “Gun shots to your police”, one passage reads, with another referencing instructions from terrorist leaders to undertake attacks against “nonbelievers” in their “backyard”.
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But in interviews with agents, Mohammed Rahami “at no time” discussed his son’s radicalization or potential interest in al-Qaeda, the Taliban or their propaganda, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation official, who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
