Two police officers were hurt during a shootout with the suspect wanted in connection with this weekend's bombings in New York City and Seaside Heights, NJ.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was arrested Monday morning in Linden, NJ, according to local TV station WABC.
Authorities told the TV station the police officer's sustained non-life threatening injuries.
Rahami was named by the NYPD as a person of interest on yesterday, according to the New York Daily News. On Monday morning, officials said he was involved with both incidents.
The Seaside Heights and Manhattan bombs were made with pressure cookers.
Two men rummaging through garbage at a train station in Elizabeth, NJ, found a backpack that contained up to five pipe bombs Sunday night.
“They noticed a package in a wastebasket,” Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said. “They took the package out of the wastebasket because they thought it was of some value to them."
Police evacuated the area.
One of the bombs exploded while an FBI robot was being used to disarm the bombs.
“Based on the loudness, I think people could have been severely hurt or injured if they were in the vicinity if that went off,” Bollwage said. "If that pub was crowded and there was a lot of people there, it could have severely injured, maimed or killed many, many people.”
By Monday morning, police were only a few blocks away in Elizabeth, searching an apartment that is believed to have been used by Rahami.
#BREAKING video shows moment bomb robot accidentally detonated device found @ Elizabeth NJ train station. @PIX11News pic.twitter.com/xfO97F2ebm
— Anthony DiLorenzo (@ADiLorenzoTV) September 19, 2016
