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FBI makes 5 arrests in possible connection with Manhattan blast – reports ‘Suspicious package’ halts train services in Elizabeth, New Jersey
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The FBI has detained at least five people of interest for questioning in connection with Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan that injured 29 people, local media reported, citing law enforcement sources. A suspicious package has been discovered on tracks halting train services in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Meanwhile nearby, the FBI has questioned five people of interest in connection with Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan that injured 29 people.
Five men have been taken in for questioning by the FBI after the agents pulled over their car in Brooklyn, sources told New York Post. The item was discovered in the area of North Broad and Westfield Avenue, CBS local reported, adding that local businesses have been ordered to evacuate. According to some reports, a hazmat team has also been dispatched to the scene and bomb technicians have a robot checking the package.
According to the information the detained people were heading over the Verrazano Bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn when they were stopped on Sunday night. The federal agents, sources told the publication, are suspected to have had a role in the bombing in NYC. Christian Bollwage, the mayor of Elizabeth, NJ, told reporters that at around 9:30pm on Sunday two men “noticed a package in the waste basket.” The men then took the package from the bin, thinking “it was of value to them” before they saw “wires and a pipe”. They then proceeded to “drop the package” and notified the local police headquarters.
The news of possible suspects in police custody has also been confirmed by NY state Sen. Martin Golden, who in his social media posts on Twitter and Instagram wrote that “the FBI took several individuals into custody...with a possible connection to the bombing last night in Chelsea.” The police then called a bomb squad who sent a drone to examine the package further.
“The drone indicated that it could be suspicious and it could be a live bomb” the mayor said, adding that FBI is at the scene.
Authorities at the scene are conducting a “secondary search” of waste bins for other possible threats, Bollwage added.
Meanwhile, five men have reportedly been taken in for questioning by the FBI after the agents pulled over their car in Brooklyn, sources told New York Post. According to the information the detained people were heading over the Verrazano Bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn.
The FBI clarified that it conducted a traffic stop, but no arrests were made or charges brought about in connection with the explosion that rocked New York on Saturday, stating that earlier media reports were inaccurate.
“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,” FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser told Reuters.
According to local news reports the men had been heading to the airport when they were pulled over by the FBI. NBC reports that NYPD officers assisted federal agents at the scene.According to local news reports the men had been heading to the airport when they were pulled over by the FBI. NBC reports that NYPD officers assisted federal agents at the scene.
Meanwhile trains in Elizabeth, New Jersey were halted because of a “suspicious package,” NBC news reported. The location of the possible new threat is right on the other side of Staten Island from the Verrazano bridge, where suspects have been detained by the FBI. A large police presence has been reported at the scene in NJ. The surrounding area of New York City remains on high alert after two bombs went off, firstly in New Jersey and later in Manhattan, on Saturday. Earlier on Sunday, NY governor Andrew Cuomo announced the deployment of close to 1,000 state police officers and National Guard servicemen to monitor bus terminals, airports, and subway stations.