Police have responded to reports that there may have been “explosives” found near former President Donald Trump’s rally site on Long Island.
“A spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com that ‘there was a suspicious occurrence’ on Wednesday ahead of Trump’s speech where thousands of MAGA fans are gathering. But there is ‘no validity’ to a report that there was an ‘explosive device found,’” the Daily Mail reported.
The Daily Mail added: “Police remain on high alert in the area hours before the former president is set to take the stage. Sources in the Nassau County Police Department allegedly told journalist James Lalino earlier Wednesday that the rally site ‘perimeter was breached and a blue barrel was removed.”
‘The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police,’ police say.
Police on New York’s Long Island on Wednesday disputed claims that explosives were found at Nassau Coliseum ahead of an event with former President Donald Trump, just days after the former president was the target of a second apparent assassination attempt in Florida.
A statement released by the Nassau County Police Department’s commissioner, Patrick Ryder, said that earlier reports of explosives being detected “are unfounded” and that an individual is being questioned “who may have been training a bomb detection dog near the site.”
“The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police,” Ryder said in the statement, which was posted on the Nassau County Police Department’s X account.
