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BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. – The FBI and local police are investigating two homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon in connection with protests in New York City<\/a> on Saturday where two people were arrested for allegedly trying to set off improvised explosive devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n FBI searching Bucks County homes <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Officials are serving warrants at two homes in Bucks County, north of Philadelphia \u2014 one in Middletown Township, the other near in Newtown Township<\/a>.<\/p>\n Officials said there was no threat to the public at either location, but asked that people stay away from the areas while teams investigated.<\/p>\n Gracie Mansion protests <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Two protests broke out in New York City on Saturday outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence. The initial protest, according to the NYPD, was an anti-Islamic demonstration organized by a “far-right provocateur,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. A larger group of counter-protesters also gathered in the area, and tensions rose between the two groups.<\/p>\n During the protests, NYPD officials said that an 18-year-old man, whom they identified as Emir Balat, threw an improvised explosive device into the crowd. Police said the device was a jar wrapped in tape, filled with nuts, bolts, screws and a fuse. The device never detonated.<\/p>\n According to officials, Balat ran from the area, then got another similar device from a man they identified as 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi, and tried to run back toward the crowd with it. Balat allegedly dropped the device, and NYPD officers arrested both men.<\/p>\n On Sunday evening, the NYPD bomb squad found a “suspicious device” inside a car near the site of the protests they say is connected to their investigation. The car, officials said, had out-of-state license plates.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from the Newtown Township Police Department, the Middletown Township Police Department, the New York Police Department, and previous FOX reports.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>News<\/a>Pennsylvania<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. – The FBI and local police are investigating two homes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[592,139,539,28,30,29,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-133123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}