A network of devices capable of disabling New York’s cellular towers and causing paralyzing service disruptions was dismantled as an “imminent” threat ahead of President Trump and other world leaders gathering for high-stakes talks at the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday.

The head of the agency’s New York field office, Matt McCool , said agents had uncovered upward of 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards at sites concentrated in New York and the tristate area with nefarious capabilities, hidden within 35 miles of Manhattan’s East Side, where dignitaries have descended for the organization’s 80th annual gathering.

“This network had the potential to disable cell-phone towers and essentially shut down the cellular network in New York City

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