The suspect was taken by ambulance to a local hospital following his capture in Linden, New Jersey, about 20 miles (32 km) outside NY.
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Investigators say the pressure cooker bomb detonated near a dumpster.
Rahami was not initially cooperative with police who tried to interview him, a law enforcement official said. One didn’t go off. One of the devices exploded as a bomb squad used a robot to try to disarm it.
Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old from Elizabeth, New Jersey, is believed to have planted two pressure cooker bombs in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday (Sept. 17). “He used to let us chill inside and let us have rap battles”, he said.
“Even as we have to be vigilant and addressive both in preventing senseless acts of violence but also making sure that we find those who carry out such acts and bring them to justice, we all have a role to pla as citizens in making sure that we don’t succumb to fear”, said Obama.
Prosecutors say the document ends: “The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”. Gun shots to your police.
It wasn’t known if Rahami had an attorney.
Five people were pulled over Sunday night in a vehicle associated with Rahami but were questioned and released, Sweeney said, declining to say whether they might later face charges.
The criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday at a federal court in Manhattan. On Sunday, five explosive devices were discovered at a New Jersey train station.
The man suspected of setting off bombs in NY and New Jersey used to work as an unarmed guard at private security companies, including one that provided services to The Associated Press.
Rahami first came to the United States in 1995 as a child, after his father arrived seeking asylum, and became a naturalized USA citizen in 2011. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation poster says Rahami was a resident of Elizabeth, where agents were executing a search warrant on Monday morning after explosive devices were found at a train station in that city, Mayor Christian Bollwage told CNN.
In the immediate aftermath of the NY bombing, Mr.de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to global terrorism.
The FBI wanted poster, issued hours before the arrest, warned that Rahami “should be considered armed and risky”.
Also on Saturday, a man who authorities say referred to Allah wounded nine people in a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer.
Meanwhile, police are ramping up security around the five boroughs because of the blast. Police say 26 people have sustained minor injuries in the explosion on West 23rd Street.
The New York Police Department released a photo of Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen of Afghan descent who was wanted for questioning in the Saturday night explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, de Blasio said on CNN.
Nor were Afghan intelligence officials aware of either Rahami or his family, said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, director-general of the Afghan National Directorate of Security. The person wasn’t authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Caldwell reported from Washington.
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”.
On Saturday, two men walking down a street in NY saw a rolling bag on a sidewalk, opened it, discarded the pressure cooker they found inside and walked off with the bag, police said. “It’s hard when it’s home”, McCann said. Reports are that the officers were not seriously hurt. Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was shown stretchered into an ambulance, sporting a bloodied bandage on his right arm and moving his head from side to side with his eyes open in Linden, New Jersey, according to ABC footage.
But the father later told investigators he just meant his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd, the officials said.
The younger Rahami was not prosecuted in the stabbing; a grand jury declined to indict him.
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The priority was to arrest the suspect and now that that has been done the investigation can focus on other things, like determining if he acted alone and the motive for the attacks, but authorities still do not know that, New York Police Chief James O’Neill said at a press conference.
