Sources: Domestic violence arrest lures bomb squad to New York home

NEW YORK – The arrest of a Staten Island man whose girlfriend accused him of holding her captive at his home, repeatedly raping and beating her this week has led investigators to a scene that eventually drew the bomb squad, two senior state officials said Thursday. police.

The man was taken into custody on Tuesday, a day after senior law enforcement officials said the woman met officers at the NYPD 120th Precinct station in Richmond Terrace. They applied for a search warrant, given the nature of their complaints, and went to the property the next day, Wednesday, to issue it, officials said.

When they got there, they met another man who claimed to live there and asked him to leave. He allegedly told them he had to get his young children off the bus first, and investigators discovered shortly after that they were not his children, but rather related to the man who was initially arrested .

The second man was also arrested for child endangerment and taken to the same police station.

While processing the scene, detectives found several chemicals and what appeared to be a pipe bomb, officials said. The Bomb Squad were called in and removed what they described as a suspicious device, they added.

The city’s environmental protection department sent personnel to check the containers of chemicals, which turned out to be commercially available substances, the senior officials said. It was unclear what chemicals were involved, but authorities said they needed to be removed from the property and disposed of properly.

A 3D printer was also found, along with a presumably unusable ghost gun, senior officials said.

Investigators were expected to return to the scene on Thursday for further processing.

No other details were immediately available.