Police seek to question man in NYC rice cooker bomb scare
Associated PressNEW YORK — Three abandoned devices that looked like pressure cookers caused an evacuation of a major New York City subway station and closed off an intersection in another part of town Friday morning before police determined the objects were not explosives. “I would stop very short of calling him a suspect,” said John Miller, the New York Police Department’s top counterterror official. Andrew Cuomo had said authorities suspected the items were placed in the subway “to suggest that they were electronic devices and possible bombs.” Many rice cookers look like pressure cookers, but the latter use pressure to cook food quickly — a function that has been used to turn them into bombs. About two hours later, a third rice cooker — the same make, year and model — was also found about 2 miles away on a sidewalk in the Chelsea neighborhood, prompting another police investigation.
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