Suspect’s ‘Self-Trained Bomb-Detecting Dog’ Sparks Scare Near Trump Rally

The Reported Incident

Police say there is no threat to for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ral­ly site on Long Island after ‘explo­sives’ were report­ed­ly found in a car near the site. 

A spokesper­son for the Nas­sau Coun­ty Police Depart­ment con­firmed to Dai­ly­Mail that “there was a sus­pi­cious occur­rence” on Wednes­day ahead of Trump’s speech, but there is “no valid­i­ty” to the report that there was an “explo­sive device found.”

Blame Placed on Suspect

“Reports of explo­sives being found at the site are unfound­ed,” said Nas­sau Coun­ty Com­mis­sion­er of Police Patrick Ryder. 

He went on to blame a sus­pect with a “self-trained bomb-detect­ing dog” for sound­ing the alarm about explo­sives near the ral­ly site.

The Commissioner’s Explanation

“There is a per­son who is being ques­tioned who may have been train­ing a bomb detec­tion dog near the site,” said Com­mis­sion­er Ryder.

“The indi­vid­ual with the bomb dog false­ly report­ed explo­sives being found and that indi­vid­ual is cur­rent­ly being detained by police.”

Continued High Alert

Police work­ing in con­junc­tion with Secret Ser­vice remain on high alert in the area hours before the for­mer pres­i­dent is set to take the stage. Thou­sands of MAGA fans are expect­ed to descend upon Long Island for the ral­ly at the Nas­sau Coliseum.

Addressing the False Alarm

The Nas­sau Coun­ty Police Depart­ment told DailyMail.com they are “work­ing on an email” to send out in response to the alleged secu­ri­ty inci­dent. A Secret Ser­vice spokesper­son also said that reports of ‘explo­sives’ found in a car are false.