MONROE – Federal authorities are investigating claims by a man who
was picked up by Monroe Police early Wednesday morning after he told them
he is an ISIS sympathizer and that a bomb had been planted in a bag.
As a result, the FBI, State Police, NYPD and local police are investigating
and questioning the 26-year-old man, said to be from Oregon.
Bomb technicians responded to the scene at a gas station at Route 17M
and Gilbert Street after police received two reports of suspicious packages
found there. Neither one proved to contain explosives.
Investigators were questioning the man all morning in hopes of learning
more about the situation.
