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U.S. NEWS Monday 19 august 2019

Bail set at $200,000 for

NYC subway scare defendant

NEW YORK (AP) — Bail was bomb, destructive device, quickly — a function that
set at $200,000 Sunday for explosive and hazardous has been used to turn them
a homeless man from West substance under circum- into bombs.
Virginia who was charged stances in which it was At the Boston Marathon
with placing two devices likely to cause public alarm in 2013, a pair of Islamic
that looked like pressure and inconvenience.” The extremists detonated two
cookers in a New York City complaint said Griffin was pressure cookers packed
subway station. seen on video pushing a with explosives, killing three
Larry Kenton Griffin II of silver shopping cart at West people and injuring hun-
Bruno, West Virginia, ap- 16th Street and 7th Avenue dreds more.
peared in Manhattan Crim- at 5:56 a.m. In September 2016, a pres-
inal Court before Judge It said he took a rice cooker sure-cooker bomb went This photo released by NYPD shows a person of interest wanted
Keisha Espinal, who set the out of the shopping cart at off in Manhattan’s Chelsea for questioning in regard to the suspicious items placed inside
bail and ordered Griffin to the Fulton Street station 40 neighborhood, injuring 30 the Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan on Friday,
Aug. 16, 2019 in New York.
return to court Friday. minutes later and kicked it people.q Associated Press
A message seeking com- toward an exit in front of
ment was left with Griffin’s an elevator. The complaint
lawyer, Michael Croce. said police Officer Joseph
The court appearance Nailes saw two rice cook-
came a day after Griffin’s ers, including the one by
arrest and two days after the elevator, about a half
Friday morning’s commute hour later.
was disrupted by a police A third rice cooker was
investigation that began found at 6:40 a.m. Friday
after two large cooking by a police detective on
pots were spotted at Man- the sidewalk at West 16th
hattan’s Fulton subway Street and 7th Avenue, the
station. The incident in- complaint said.
convenienced thousands West Virginia authorities
of commuters who use have said Griffin has been
multiple subway lines that arrested in the state at least
converge at the busy sta- three times in the past eight
tion next to the World Trade years, including a 2017 ar-
Center site, where a heavy rest on charges alleging he
police presence exists dur- sent obscene material to a
ing every busy morning or minor.
evening commute since Tara Brumfield, Griffin’s
the Sept. 11 attacks. cousin, told a Huntington,
The 26-year-old Griffin was West Virginia, television sta-
charged with two counts tion that he is a good per-
of placing a false bomb . son who has been dealing
He was arrested Saturday with mental health issues.
in the Bronx after photo- Alluding to the rice cook-
graphs of Griffin and the ers, she said Griffin has a
pots were distributed wide- habit of picking up items
ly by law enforcement au- in one place and putting
thorities. them down in another.
A criminal complaint Many rice cookers look like
said Griffin knew the pots pressure cookers, which
“would appear to be a use pressure to cook food

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