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….