Agents with the FBI have pulled over a auto on a highway in Brooklyn and were questioning the vehicle’s occupants in connection with the investigation into the New York City bombing that injured 29 people, authorities said.
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“We conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in New York City but no arrests were made and no one has been charged with any crime”, Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser said.
FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser says agents stopped “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” at 8:45pm local time on Sunday.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a Sunday news conference that it was too early to say whether the explosion, as well as the discovery of what appeared to be a pressure cooker with a cellphone attached a few blocks away, could be linked to worldwide terrorism, but added “a bomb exploding in NY is obviously an act of terrorism”.
She said the investigation was continuing.
However a police source who spoke to The New York Post said an unidentified man had called them after the bombings at the weekend, warning there would be more.
The vehicle was stopped around 9:30 pm heading east on the Belt Parkway from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects the NY city boroughs Brooklyn and Staten Island.
A spokesman for the New York Police Department declined to confirm the reports, only saying that the probe was ongoing.
Officials in New York City have not yet identified any suspects behind Saturday night’s blast in the Chelsea area, which left at least 29 injured. An undetonated pressure cooker bomb was also found four blocks away.
An aide for Elizabeth mayor Chris Bollwage first said the device was destroyed in a controlled explosion, but the mayor said later that it blew up as a bomb squad robot was cutting into it, NBC News reported.
The latest blast happened in the early hours of Monday morning after five devices were reported to have been found near a train station in Elizabeth.
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Three pipe bombs wired together had been found earlier in the day (18 September) near a New Jersey charity run in Seaside Park to raise money to benefit US Marines and sailors.
