Domestic machete assault leads to discovery of ‘potentially viable explosive device’ in car outside East Harlem NYPD precinct

The NYPD Bomb Squad and Emergency Service Unit responded to the department’s 25th Precinct in East Harlem on Wednesday afternoon after a domestic assault involving a machete led to the discovery of a “potentially viable improvised explosive device” in a car outside the station house.

Two men, who are cousins, pulled up to the 25th Precinct on East 119th Street at 11:50 a.m. The vehicle’s driver told two uniformed officers, who were assigned to station house security, that he was the victim of a domestic assault.

Police officials said at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon that the domestic assault took place in the vehicle. The driver told the officers that the passenger had struck him with a machete in the back of the head, “causing a bleeding bruise.”

The suspect was immediately removed into the station house and the machete was secured when the victim indicated that there was an explosive device in the car, at which point reinforcements responded to the scene.

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