Frank R. James was due to appear in court Thursday on a charge that pertains to terrorist or other violent attacks against mass transit systems and carries a sentence of up to life in prison,
and charged with a federal terrorism offense after the suspect called police to come get him, law enforcement officials said.“My fellow New Yorkers, we got him,” Mayor Eric Adams said.
Police had urged the public to help find him, releasing his name and photo and even sending a cellphone alert before they got a tip Wednesday. “I don’t think I could ever ride a train again,” Hourari Benkada, a Manhattan hotel housekeeping manager who was shot in the leg, told CNN from a hospital bed.
When the first smoke bomb went off, a passenger asked what he was doing, according to a witness account to police. Tucked in an orange workers’ jacket, which he apparently tossed on a subway platform, was a receipt for a Philadelphia storage unit. Authorities found ammunition, targets and a pistol barrel in the storage locker and learned he’d been there on Monday, the complaint said.
James had worked at a variety of manufacturing and other jobs, according to his videos. Police said he’d been arrested 12 times in New York and New Jersey between 1990 and 2007 on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to possession of burglary tools, but he has no felony convictions.
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