New York City bomber terrorist Ahmad Khan Rahami, a flight risk (his wife is already gone) receives bail. He’s still in the hospital getting treated for gunshot wounds taken during the shootout with police officers at his capture.
I don’t get it. How does he get bail?
The Afghan immigrant who authorities believe planted bombs in New Jersey and New York this weekend was captured Monday after a dramatic gun battle with police that sparked when officers found him sleeping in the doorway of a bar.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was charged late Monday in Union County with five counts of attempted murder of a police officer. He was being held on $5.2 million bail and remained at a hospital. It wasn’t known if Rahami had an attorney, as messages left with phone numbers listed for family members by the Associated Press weren’t returned. Federal charges in the bombings have yet to be filed.
Rahami is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was identified as the primary person of interest in the Saturday night blast in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, an explosion in New Jersey’s Seaside Park on Saturday morning and a foiled bomb attack Sunday night near a train station in Elizabeth, NJ.
5% is $250,000. That’s a lot of money, but for a determined criminal with rich friends, that’s not impossible money.