A chambermaid was hospitalized after coming in touch with a mysterious white powder inside a midtown Manhattan lodge room Tuesday, authorities stated.
The girl was cleansing a room on the Park Hyatt Hotel on West 57th Street when she found a “white powdery substance” close to the lavatory sink and started feeling dizzy and nauseous round 1:20 p.m., police stated.
The FDNY responded and swabbed surfaces inside the room. They examined the samples collected and located a potential hint quantity of an explosive substance, NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy stated at a press convention.
The NYPD bomb squad and the FBI then responded to the lodge and evacuated the whole eleventh ground as a precaution and picked up their very own samples from contained in the room, McCarthy stated.
Their checks discovered no proof of a probably hazardous materials and investigators imagine the FDNY’s preliminary take a look at was a false constructive, McCarthy stated.
Still, police later Tuesday evening took a person into custody they imagine is behind the mysterious powder, sources stated.
McCarthy had stated the suspect, who has 16 prior arrests for low-level crimes, snuck into the lodge room after a household had checked out Sunday morning and stayed in a single day.
The man is believed to have picked up a lodge card key to the room {that a} member of the family had dropped. He swiped into the room at 8:30 p.m. Sunday and left at 10:30 a.m. the subsequent morning, McCarthy stated.
The unidentified suspect has been identified to trespass at inns, he added.
Police stated that there is no such thing as a menace to the general public.
“I want to stress to all New Yorkers and visitors that there’s no credible threat against the city at this time,” McCarthy stated Tuesday evening.
