NEW YORK, N.Y. — A West Virginia man is a “person of interest” in an investigation focused on suspicious packages, in the form of rice cookers, found at a subway station in New York City on Friday.
On Friday, ABC News reported New York City Police Department authorities identified Larry Griffin II of Logan County as the person shown on surveillance video removing the devices from a shopping cart.
The Bruno man was being questioned on Saturday morning, according to ABC.
The rice cookers, determined within hours to not contain explosives, forced the evacuation of the busy Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan on Friday morning.
They were spotted on the mezzanine and platform levels.
New York City Police said a third rice cooker, found at the intersection of 16th Street and Seventh Avenue, may or may not be connected to the subway station packages.
Deputies with the Logan County Sheriff’s Department said the FBI Joint Task Force in New York contacted them on Friday afternoon for assistance in locating Griffin with help from family members.
No location was determined at that time.
Griffin has a criminal history in Logan County after three arrests in the past eight years, according to deputies, on charges that included possession of a controlled substance and use of obscene material to seduce a minor.
A warrant is out for his arrest in West Virginia for missing required drug screenings as part of his bond supervision.