An upstate man was arrested Saturday in Brooklyn after he told a gas station worker that he was driving to New York City to bomb ICE agents , police officials said.
David Cox, 54, of Newark Valley, stopped at a gas station about 100 miles away from there in Oswego around 9:20 p.m. on Friday, where he allegedly told an attendant he was driving down to the city for the No Kings march and planned, while there, to bomb Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to police.
Cox was caught in Borough Park, Brooklyn, on Saturday around 2:25 p.m., after a license plate reader got a hit earlier on his plate, according to a police source. No weapons or explosives were found in his car, though.
It wasn’t immediately clear why he was in Borough Park.
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