BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) - A town official in Connecticut says police and FBI agents have surrounded a tractor-trailer possibly carrying explosives.
Branford first selectman Anthony DaRos said Friday that police have told him that authorities are holding the semitrailer at a travel stop on Interstate 95. He did not say which direction the truck was headed or what happened to the driver.
The Hartford Courant reports that state troopers took the driver and a passenger into custody at gunpoint, then began searching the truck.
Branford is about 80 miles north of New York City.
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In nearby New Haven on Wednesday, two men were found in a Mercedes with what appeared to be a pipe bomb, ammunition, gas masks and other materials. Authorities say it's unclear whether they planned to use the explosives because they are not talking to investigators. Both were being held on $500,000 bond.
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FBI: Tractor-trailer in Conn. carrying no explosives and is not a danger to the public
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Writer , The Associated Press - BRANFORD, Conn.
The FBI says that a tractor-trailer that agents and police officers had surrounded at a travel stop on Interstate 95 in Connecticut is carrying no explosive devices.
Spokesman William Reiner said Friday that the truck is not a danger to the public.
Branford first selectman Anthony DaRos had said earlier that the truck was surrounded, but it's not clear what led to the situation.
The Hartford Courant reports that state troopers took the driver and a passenger into custody at gunpoint, then began searching the truck.
Branford is about 80 miles north of New York City.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
BRANFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A town official in Connecticut says police and FBI agents have surrounded a tractor-trailer possibly carrying explosives at a travel stop on Interstate 95.
Branford first selectman Anthony DaRos did not say which direction the truck was headed Friday or what happened to the driver.
The Hartford Courant reports that state troopers took the driver and a passenger into custody at gunpoint, then began searching the truck.
Branford is about 80 miles north of New York City.
In nearby New Haven on Wednesday, two men were found in a Mercedes with what appeared to be a pipe bomb, ammunition, gas masks and other materials. Authorities say it's unclear whether they planned to use the explosives because they are not talking to investigators. Both were being held on $500,000 bond.
No Explosives Found In Stopped Semi
BRANFORD, Conn. -- The FBI says that a tractor-trailer that agents and police officers had surrounded at a travel stop on Interstate 95 in Connecticut is carrying no explosive devices.
Spokesman William Reiner said Friday that the truck is not a danger to the public.
Branford first selectman Anthony DaRos had said earlier that the truck was surrounded, but it's not clear what led to the situation.
The Hartford Courant reports that state troopers took the driver and a passenger into custody at gunpoint, then began searching the truck.
Branford is about 80 miles north of New York City.
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Right.
I think it's interesting we had a school shooting, and the guy was carrying a propane tank (rather clearly he was thinking of it as a weapon), and this the same day.
But, according to the media, both of the situations were nothing.
The Oct. 7th incident re: the two New Haven guys with the pipe bomb, rifles, propane are:
27 year old Jessup Bollinger
38 year old John Iannucci
They are each being held on a $500,000 bond.
Oct 5th ABC U.S. Plans Law Enforcement 'Surge' On Trains Stepped-Up Security on Amtrak Trains
U.S. authorities plan a law enforcement surge this week along Amtrak routes, an exercise called RailSafe, and the heads of the country's biggest mass transit systems were briefed today on the possible terror threat, all part of what is being called an abundance of caution.
Amtrak is holding a high-security exercise Friday in which uniformed officers will be a visible presence on national transit routes. RailSafe will include all the local police agencies along the Amtrak routes involved in the exercise.
"If al Qaeda is planning simultaneous attacks in Europe," said Richard Clarke, former White House national security official and now an ABC News consultant, "there's nothing to say they could not also include the US on that list of simultaneous attacks."
A senior DHS official said the rail exercise is "long-planned" and "is not connected in any way" to the terror threat in Europe.
The stepped-up security comes as the French arrested 12 terror suspects in Bordeaux and Marseilles, and as the U.S. used CIA drones to attack a suspected center of the plot in Pakistan.
The target hit Monday was one of the terror training camps in the Waziristan region where U.S. officials say a contingent of German citizens of Afghan and Turkish descent have been preparing for jihad against Europe.
U.S. officials say some have already been dispatched, likely those with their faces obscured in a recently released propaganda tape.
But Pakistani officials told ABC News that at least five people were killed Monday at a terror training camp where German citizens have been recruited for the alleged European plot.
The strike came a day after the State Department issued a highly unusual travel advisory for Americans going to Europe because of the potential threat of Mumbai-style commando attacks on civilians, possibly by terrorists of German origin based in Waziristan. Authorities learned of the possible plot this summer from a German national who had been training for jihad and is being held by the U.S. in Afghanistan. . .
New Haven Bomb Suspect has similar prior case pending via New Haven Register
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