by Sean Mandell
September 19, 2016 | 11:58am
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Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man police
think was responsible for bombs being planted in Manhattan and New
Jersey over the weekend has been taken into custody.
Rahami’s arrest came after 36,000 NYPD officers went on heightened alert. The NYPD also issued emergency alerts to all cell phones in New York, providing a photo of Rahami and asking anyone with knowledge of his whereabouts to contact authorities.
Mr.
Rahami, 28, was identified on surveillance video near the locations of
both the bomb that exploded in Chelsea and another device that did not
detonate a few blocks away. He was described as a naturalized citizen of
Afghan descent who had been living with his family in Elizabeth, N.J.
It remained unclear whether there were other suspects who the police were searching for in the connection with the bombing.
Rahami was reportedly taken into custody after a shootout with police.
A law
enforcement official with knowledge of the case spoke with the NYT and
says evidence obtained by police suggests “Mr. Rahami was connected not
just to the Manhattan explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood, but also to
a bombing that took place earlier on Saturday on the Jersey Shore,” as The Times put it:
“We
don’t know his particular ideology or what his inspiration was or
whether he was directed or whether he was inspired,” the official said.
“We don’t have any of that.”
“We
have a lot to connect him to the Seaside Heights device, to the 27th
Street device, to the 23rd Street device,” the official added. “And in
all likelihood the Elizabeth train station device — which is a half-mile
from his residence. So, the ideology, the connection to international
terrorism, we might flesh that out as we go through the results of
search warrants, looking for computers, discs, things like this. Search
warrants that we did Sunday night at the residence in Elizabeth.”
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