Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested yesterday following a gunfight after a New Jersey bar owner spotted the suspect sleeping in his doorway Moshe Weiss/APForty-nine hours after bombs began exploding on roadsides in New Jersey and Manhattan, a frantic manhunt involving thousands of police officers came to an end in the porch of a bar. There Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, who had briefly become the most wanted man in America, lay curled up asleep. “Go f*** yourself, I’m sleeping,” he said, when the landlord of Merdie’s Tavern, in Linden, New Jersey, attempted to rouse him, according to Jack Mazza, 55, a local car mechanic. One of several bombs found in a rucksack outside a station in New Jersey exploded when a bomb disposal robot cut its wiresThe bar owner, Harinda Bains, recognised Mr Rahami from wanted photographs released that morning. A text message alert sent out…
Source: The Times September 19, 2016 22:58 UTC