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5 People Taken Into Custody in Connection with Chelsea Explosion, Bomb found in Elizabeth, NJ, UPDATE: RAHAMI CAPTURED
At 8:45 p.m. Sunday the FBI and NYPD conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in the investigation into the bombing. The men were in a car stopped on the Belt Parkway. They were headed from Staten Island to Brooklyn on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
[nj.com] ELIZABETH — Authorities are investigating a suspicious package at the Elizabeth train station, officials said. According to Mayor Christian Bollwage two men found the package in a waste basket on North Broad Street and Julian Place around 9:30 p.m. The men took the package "because they thought it was of some value," walked for a bit, then saw wires and a pipe, dropped the package and notified Elizabeth Police. The Union County Bomb Squad was called in and used a drone to examine the package, the mayor said. "The drone indicated it could be suspicious and it could be a live bomb," Bollwage said. The package has not yet been removed, Bollwage said. He said State Police would check it for evidence, compare it and then figure out how to remove it. Reached after Midnight on Monday morning, a spokesman for the FBI in Newark, Special Agent Michael Whitaker, said only that his agency had responded to the scene, and declined to provide any details of the investigation. "FBI in Newark is aware of the situation in Elizabeth, N.J., and we are responding with our local partners," Whitaker said. Police have cordoned off the station and several streets surrounding it. A spokeswoman for NJ Transit, Nancy Snyder, said service between Newark Penn Station and Elizabeth on the North Jersey Coast Line and Northeast Corridor had been suspended due to the report of the suspicious package. Snyder could not immediately say how many trains or passengers had been effected. She said NJ Transit Police were not involved in the investigation and the agency had no information about the package. Amtrak service was also suspended near Elizabeth, agency spokesman Craig Schulz said in a statement. "We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and will resume service as soon as it is safe to do so," the spokesman said. Train service along the Northeast Corridor Line is also suspended in the area.
[DailyMail] o Five people were apprehended on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn near to New York's Verrazano Bridge. They were heavily armed according to the FBI who also said they discovered bomb making equipment. o Police and FBI said that three pipe bombs and two smaller explosive devices were found in Elizabeth, NJ. All Amtrak and NJTransit trains were being held in Penn Station in Manhattan after the discovery at station. o The pipe bombs in New Jersey used flip phone timers and as did pressure-cooker device found in Chelsea. It's believed home-made bomb that exploded also used old-school flip phone as a detonator. o Device found in Elizabeth is similar in appearance to device found in Seaside Park, NJ. o Believed that the metal dumpster the bomb was placed in prevented loss of life in Manhattan. o CNN have obtained video that shows the same man at 23rd and 27th streets - where the bombs were left. Another two men are seen on video removing the pressure cooker from a duffel bag on 27th.
[NYT] ELIZABETH, N.J. -- The bomb drama rattling the New York region arrived here Sunday night when two men walked out of Hector’s Place Restaurant near the city’s train station and found a backpack containing five explosives resting atop a municipal garbage can, Mayor J. Christian Bollwage said. After finding that the backpack contained "wires and a pipe," the mayor said, the men dropped the item in the street and contacted the Elizabeth Police Department around 8:45 p.m. The police, in turn, called the Union County bomb squad, and the investigation was quickly turned over to the F.B.I. and the New Jersey State Police, Mr. Bollwage said. The F.B.I. then sent in a pair of robots and determined that the backpack held five bombs, some of which were pipe bombs, the mayor said. Around 12:30 a.m., the robots tried to clip a wire to disarm one bomb and accidentally detonated it, the mayor said. "As a robot was trying to disarm one of the devices, it exploded," he said. No injuries were reported.
Law enforcement officers were searching several location in Elizabeth later on Monday morning. The men who initially found the backpack were not suspects, the mayor said. The mayor said that the area had been searched and that no other such packages had been found. On Monday morning, New Jersey Transit announced that service on the Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast lines would resume at 5:30 a.m., but it warned that “customers are advised to plan for delays.” Amtrak said that Acela and Northeast Regional trains would run on a modified schedule on Monday, and it cautioned that “passengers should be prepared for the possibility of additional cancellations and delays throughout the day.”
CHELSEA, Manhattan (WABC) --The man believed to be behind weekend bombings in Chelsea, Seaside Park and Elizabeth has been taken into custody following a incident with police in Linden, New Jersey. Details are just coming in, but law enforcement sources say Ahmad Khan Rahami was captured following gunfire. He is reportedly alive but wounded, and two police officers were also injured. The FBI had earlier released a wanted poster for the 28-year-old Rahami, who was said to be operating a 2003 Blue Honda Civic bearing NJ registration D63EYB. He may be related to five people who were taken into custody for questioning by the FBI in connection with Saturday night's bombing in Chelsea. Posted by: charger 2016-09-19 |
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