He is also charged with two second-degree counts regarding his possession of a handgun.
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Talking to reporters Monday, Elizabeth Mayor J. Christian Bollwage confirmed the acrimony and said city officials kept getting complaints about rowdy customers and incidents stemming from the late-night hours.
“We have every reason to believe this was an act of terror”, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Weekend bombings in NY and New Jersey unnerved commuters and forced people to alter their schedules Monday morning – but most, in typical NY fashion, were ultimately defiant about living their lives. Two officers were injured, as was Rahami. “At that point, the officer returned fire”.
The BBC reports that Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, is undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound.
It seemed like the typical life of an immigrant son, said friends and neighbors.
But two big questions remain. While in Pakistan in July 2011, he married a Pakistani woman.
Investigators are looking into whether he was radicalized overseas before returning to the United States in 2014, according to the official.
The arrest came just hours after police issued a bulletin and photo of Rahami, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan who lived with his Muslim family in an apartment in Elizabeth, New Jersey, over a fried-chicken restaurant owned by his father.
Rahami was not initially cooperative with police who tried to interview him, a law enforcement official said.
Harinder Bains, the owner of a bar in Linden found Ahmad Khan Rahami sleeping in the doorway of his bar yesterday.
When FBI agents began sprinting for their cars at the start of a press conference about the bomber who terrorized NY and New Jersey, we went running right behind them. Schiff, a California Democrat, is ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement agencies were working “smartly” to locate a culprit.
Rahami was identified by investigators using the cellphone attached on the explosive device made out from a pressure cooker, as well as his fingerprints left on the device, according to authorities.
NY went on full alert, deploying almost 1,000 extra state police and National Guardsmen to airports, bus terminals and subway stations as President Barack Obama arrived in the city ahead of Tuesday’s opening of the UN General Assembly. Rahami’s last known address was in Elizabeth, and an explosives-laden backpack was found there Sunday night.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was initially spotted by a police officer outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey around three hours after the Federal Bureau of Investigation released his mugshot and described him as “armed and unsafe”.
Rahami, who has brown hair, brown eyes and a beard, was apparently seen in surveillance footage taken in Chelsea before the bomb went off.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said as investigators gathered information they learned there were “certain commonalities among the bombs”, leading authorities to believe “that there was a common group behind the bombs”.
“And then they asked me, ‘What’s your nationality?’ I said ‘I’m half Mexican, half Israeli.’ Conversation over”. Those found in N.J. were pipe bombs.
It contained up to five devices, Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said. As the robot was doing so, one of the devices detonated.
Citing the FBI, New Jersey State Police said Monday that the bombs in Chelsea and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park were connected. A forensic examination of the device will be sent to the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Virginia, police said.
Police had also found a suspicious package and required bomb squad and police canine to the scene.
Elizabeth is about 16 miles southwest of New York City.
Substantial police presence notwithstanding, life in NY appears to have returned to normal.
The FBI identified the pressure cookers’ contents as pieces of metal mixed with ball bearing and BBs.
The Manhattan blast took place on West 23rd Street around 8:30 p.m. Saturday and injured 29 people.
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The president said the FBI is investigating the incident in Minnesota as a “potential act of terrorism”.
