It said, “WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male”. His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant on Monday morning.
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The search for Rahami ended after police got a call about a man sleeping in the doorway of a local bar, Sarnacki said.
Authorities say FBI agents pulled over a auto on a road in Brooklyn and are questioning the vehicle’s occupants as part of the investigation into Saturday’s bombing.
Authorities are seeking 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan. No one was injured there.
Meanwhile, the federal authorities were also investigating whether the NY blast had any links to the suspicious backpack, containing “multiple explosive devices”, that was found at a train station in New Jersey today. No one was injured. Spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama will comment publicly later Monday.
Spokesman Josh Earnest says the White House is following the situation closely.
And in a freaky twist, the videos also show two other men approaching the duffel bag after it was left on 27th Street, four blocks from where the 23rd St bomb exploded.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Rahami could be “armed and dangerous”. He is a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan. “We have no information that would link them to this at all”, Boyce said at a briefing.
“What we didn’t know yesterday, and we don’t know yet, is: Is anyone taking credit for it and is it linked to worldwide terrorism?”
The bomb went off Saturday in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, injuring 29 people. All of those admitted to hospitals had been released.
Investigators have not said if there is any connection between the two explosions in New Jersey, or the explosion in Chelsea.
Three law enforcement officials said the clues that led them to Ahmad Khan Rahami included a fingerprint lifted from one of the NY sites and “clear as day” surveillance video from the bombing scene that helped identify Rahami.
Investigators in NY determined that both bombs were made using pressure cookers that were filled with explosives and shrapnel, including ball bearings or metal BBs, and could be detonated using flip phones and Christmas lights, a law enforcement official said. In the immediate aftermath of that bombing, de Blasio and Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to worldwide terrorism.
Police have reportedly obtained videos showing the moment a suspect in the NY bombing on Saturday night left one of the pressure cooker devices on the street.
Officials said they had no indication there were more bombs or suspects to find, though they cautioned that they were continuing to work to understand Rahami’s connections.
A pipe bomb also exploded Saturday in Seaside Park ahead of a charity race.
And on Sunday night, five explosive devices were found near an Elizabeth, New Jersey, train station.
Authorities believe the three bombs – one exploding in an oceanfront town on the New Jersey shore, one in Manhattan and another in Elizabeth, a town bordering Newark International Airport, just beyond New York City’s borders – are related.
An explosion in Manhattan on Saturday injured 29 people.
Mobile phones were discovered at the site of both bombings.
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As authorities continue to try to unravel who planted the device and why, a law enforcement official told AP the bomb contained traces of Tannerite, an explosive often used for target practice that can be bought in sports stores.
