NEW YORK — Newly released surveillance video appears to show a man buying a fuse at a fireworks store days before authorities say he and another man brought homemade bombs to a protest outside the New York City mayor’s residence. Emir Balat, 18, visited a Phantom Fireworks store near his suburban Philadelphia home on March … Read more
One of two men accused of throwing improvised explosive devices at protesters Saturday outside the New York City mayor’s residence appears to have purchased fuses at a fireworks store in a Philadelphia suburb last week, CBS News has learned. Emir Balat, 18, purchased fuses at Phantom Fireworks,in Penndel, Pennsylvania, according to William Weimer, vice … Read more
Emir Balat, an 18-year-old Pennsylvania man charged with terrorism for allegedly throwing two homemade bombs into a crowd near Gracie Mansion in New York Saturday, apparently purchased the fuse used in the devices at Phantom Fireworks in a Philadelphia suburb on March 2. Surveillance video from the store shows him walking inside and apparently purchasing … Read more