Unexplained loud bangs perplex neighbors near homes of alleged NYC terror plot suspects

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. —Eight unexplained explosions reported implicit 10 months successful Bucks County, Pennsylvania, happened adjacent the homes of 2 men aboriginal accused successful an alleged ISIS-inspired New York City panic plot, leaving residents perplexed.

Bensalem Township Police Sgt. Glenn Vandegrift confirmed to Fox News Digital that the section received 8 sound complaints betwixt April 2025 and aboriginal January 2026 for what residents described arsenic large bangs.

"After conducting an investigation, detectives closed the lawsuit owed to a deficiency of evidence, the inability to find the nonstop root of the sounds and the inability to corroborate that the noises originated wrong Bensalem Township," Vandegrift said. "We person not received immoderate reports of injuries related to these incidents, and astatine nary clip did we place immoderate accusation indicating a menace to nationalist safety."

Bensalem nonmigratory Rick D’Aguanno told Fox News Digital the explosions were large and appeared to travel from antithetic directions astir his neighborhood.

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The fishy appears to tally distant aft helium allegedly threw the explosive. (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York)

"It was conscionable loud… loud, random explosions during the evening oregon antithetic times of the day," helium said.

D’Aguanno said helium believed idiosyncratic whitethorn person been mounting disconnected fireworks oregon different explosives and said helium was told by a section elected authoritative that a idiosyncratic had been identified, though constabulary said nary arrests were made successful transportation with the incidents.

The reports resurfaced connected societal media this week arsenic Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, of Newtown, were arrested successful New York City. The men are accused of throwing unrecorded explosive devices into a protestation extracurricular Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence, Gracie Mansion, connected Saturday.

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One of the Pennsylvania suspects allegedly progressive successful an ISIS-inspired panic onslaught extracurricular the New York City mayor’s residence is seen during the protestation anterior to his arrest. (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York)

D’Aguanno’s location successful Bensalem is astir 3 miles from Balat’s residence successful Langhorne and astir 15 miles from Kayumi’s location successful Newtown.

The geographic overlap has drawn renewed attraction pursuing the arrests.

"At this time, we person nary accusation linking the caller arrests successful New York City to the antecedently reported large bangs successful Bensalem Township," Vandegrift said. "While we recognize determination whitethorn beryllium involvement successful drafting a transportation betwixt the caller bombing incidental successful New York City and reports of explosions successful the wide country of the suspect’s location successful Langhorne, our probe has not identified immoderate grounds establishing specified a nexus."

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Close up images amusement explosive materials and shrapnel wrong 1 of the alleged ISIS-inspired bombs recovered successful New York City aft a failed panic onslaught connected March 7. (Justice Department Office of Public Affairs)

Vandegrift noted that nary 1 was arrested successful transportation with the reports successful Bensalem and said if caller accusation were to look establishing a credible transportation to transgression enactment wrong the township, the lawsuit would beryllium reviewed and due enactment taken. He added that immoderate accusation suggesting a transportation to the New York City incidental would beryllium shared with national authorities.

Anyone with credible accusation related to the explosions is encouraged to interaction Bensalem Township Police. Fox News Digital has besides reached retired to Middletown Township Police, wherever Balat resides, for comment.

Federal authorities person elaborate the allegations against the 2 men successful tribunal documents.

Prosecutors allege the brace threw a instrumentality containing triacetone triperoxide, oregon TATP, with nuts and bolts attached utilizing duct tape.

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According to The Associated Press, a licence sheet scholar captured the 2 men entering New York City from New Jersey little than an hr earlier the alleged attack, which took spot astir 12:15 p.m. 

Kayumi’s parent told authorities she past saw him astatine astir 10:30 a.m. Saturday earlier filing a missing idiosyncratic report.