Police make arrest over US mail bombs
MORE PACKAGES DISCOVERED
AMERICAN authorities have detained a man in his 50s in connection with the mail bombs scare that has widened to 12 suspicious packages, officials said yesterday.
Video from television news helicopters showed federal agents and police examining a white van in the car park of a business in Plantation, Florida.
The news came after authorities said suspicious packages addressed to New Jersey senator Cory Booker and former National Intelligence director James Clapper – both similar to those containing pipe bombs sent to other prominent critics of Donald Trump – had been intercepted.
The discoveries further spurred a coast-to-coast investigation as officials scramble to locate a culprit and motive amid questions about whether new packages were being sent or were simply surfacing after time in the mail system.
The devices have targeted wellknown Democrats including former president Barack Obama, exvice president Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and former attorney general Eric Holder.
Actor Robert De Niro was also targeted.
Attorney general Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department was dedicating every available resource to the investigation.
Mr Trump, on the other hand, complained that “this ‘bomb’ stuff” was taking attention away from upcoming elections.