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.
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There is “nothing to indicate” that Rahami was previously on the FBI’s radar, he said.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says investigators have no reason to believe that there are further threats, but the public should “be on constant guard”. “I want New Yorkers to be confident when they go back to work on Monday that NY is up and running and we’re doing everything that we need to do”. “Things are moving very quickly”.
The search for Rahami kicked into high gear this morning, after a third blast – this time in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
One of the five devices found at the Elizabeth train station exploded while a bomb squad robot tried to disarm it. No one was injured.
The Fire Department says the blast was reported shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday on West 23rd Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.
Cuomo had said Sunday that there was no evidence to suggest that the bombing was related to global terrorism, but he appeared to walk that back Monday.
That advice appears to have worked in Linden, New Jersey, where witnesses told police they saw a suspicious man sleeping outside a local bar.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said the suspect was considered “armed and unsafe”.
Cuomo, in a separate interview on MSNBC, said: “Today’s information suggests it may be foreign related but we’ll see where it goes”.
Two U.S. officials say a notebook with extremist ramblings was found when the man suspected of placing bombs in New York City and New Jersey was taken into custody.
They already have. About 1,000 extra security personnel have being deployed to New York’s transport hubs as President Barack Obama arrived in the city.
It comes as Federal Bureau of Investigation officials say they made a traffic stop in connection to Saturday night’s explosion in Chelsea.
A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that an explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood appears to have come from a construction toolbox in front of a building.
Electronic toll records show a vehicle to which he had access was driven from New Jersey to Manhattan and back to New Jersey the day of the bombing, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the case.
A police officer went to investigate and recognised the man as Rahami, police and the mayor said. An unexploded pressure-cooker bomb was found blocks away. Tannerite is binary explosive, meaning two powders mixed together before detonation, which can be legally bought in many sporting goods stores.
An official told Fox News on Sunday that the bombs in New Jersey and NY were “from the same person” and the devices in both explosions included mobile phones. The officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with planting a series of bombs in NY and New Jersey, including one that injured 31 people when it blew up on a busy street.
NEW YORK -New York police took a man into custody Monday in connection with bombings in Manhattan and Seaside Park, N.J.
The Minnesota attacker was described a “soldier of the Islamic State”, the militant group’s news agency said.
New Jersey Transit train service has been suspended between Elizabeth and Newark Airport, while Amtrak riders should expect delays along the Northeast Corridor Monday. No injuries were reported.
What we don’t know: Despite some similarities between the explosions in NY and New Jersey over the weekend, authorities haven’t concluded if they’re connected.
Officers sent in a robot to examine the devices, causing one of them to explode. He said that the evidence from the bomb was sent to Quantico, Virginia for analysis by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The driver, MD Alam, of Brooklyn, had just picked up three passengers and was driving along 23rd Street when the explosion occurred, shattering the car’s windows and leaving gaping holes in the rear passenger-side door.
Back here in the city, Councilmember Corey Johnson is advising Chelsea residents to stay alert in the wake of the explosion.
Authorities have not drawn any connection between the violence in Minnesota and the bombings in the NY area.
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While two bombs were found on Saturday, only one of the bombs actually went off. “This is too loud”, Stanhope said.
