Un homme de 55 ans a été inculpé pour avoir placé au moins sept engins explosifs improvisés dans différentes zones de la ville de New York, notamment sur les voies de métro du pont de Williamsburg et sur les toits d'immeubles résidentiels de Manhattan.
Michael Gann, un habitant d'Inwood, a commandé en ligne des précurseurs chimiques, qui peuvent être combinés pour créer un mélange explosif, et a fabriqué sept engins explosifs improvisés, selon l'acte d'accusation dévoilé par le Bureau du procureur des États-Unis pour le district sud de l'état de New York. Les autorités fédérales l'accusent d'avoir fin mai lancé trois engins explosifs artisanaux depuis le pont de Williamsburg, point de passage entre Manhattan et Brooklyn, dont un aurait atterri sur les voies du métro et deux autres dans l'East River.
00:00And that breaking news involves the indictment of a man who left a bomb on the Williamsburg Bridge and had other bombs around Manhattan.
00:07I'm Wittes News reporter Sonia Rincon, live on the Lower East Side with these breaking details. Sonia.
00:13Mike, the man under federal indictment is 55 from Nassau County, accused of making homemade bombs that authorities say he intended and attempted to use here in the city, including one place directly on the Williamsburg Bridge.
00:27Tonight, authorities released this disturbing photo of an improvised explosive device on the subway tracks on the bridge.
00:35This photo taken in May of this year.
00:37The indictment alleges Michael Gann made several of these devices, ordering precursor chemicals online that can be combined into a destructive mixture and more than 50 feet of fuses.
00:48The NYPD commissioner tonight saying this defendant allegedly stockpiled homemade explosives and traveled to New York City with these deadly devices.
00:56The FBI says the joint investigation found that Gann allegedly produced multiple improvised explosive devices intended for use in Manhattan.
01:06A surveillance camera captured him, apparently carrying some of those devices onto rooftops downtown.
01:12The Manhattan federal prosecutor says Gann stored at least five IEDs and shotgun shells on adjoining rooftops of residential apartment buildings in Soho.
01:21But the Williamsburg Bridge might have become a target, and tonight it is not clear why.
01:27The indictment claims a six device was discovered there, that he threw at least one IED onto the subway tracks of the Williamsburg Bridge,
01:35and subsequently lied to law enforcement about having disposed of his explosives and supplies in a dumpster.
01:42Now, there are still many questions about this case, like a motive, which is not detailed in the indictment.
01:48It charges him with transporting and possessing and attempting to destroy property with these explosives.
01:55Michael Gann, who is from Inwood, Long Island, could face up to 20 years in prison on the most serious charge if convicted.
02:02We're live on the Lower East Side, Sonia Rincon, Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
