Developing: Police have arrested a suspect after a suspicious powder incident in Midtown prompted a large law enforcement response. elijahwestbrook reports.
Further tests showed no hazardous material, leading police to believe it was likely a false positive. she began to feel nauseous after cleaning up a white powdery substancePolice say, using video surveillance, they have been able to spot the man who gained access to a vacant hotel room Monday night before leaving Tuesday morning. They believe a previous guest of the room lost a key, which the man then found.
We're being told the hotel employee cleaned the powdery substance in the room before police were able to look at it for themselves. "We don't know at this time, because it was like she had cleaned the whole room. So we really don't have that we've swabbed everything. And it came back negative, but we don't have the substance itself," said NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy.
The charges against the man are still pending. The NYPD says the suspect is known to police, and has been arrested at least 16 times, including trespassing at other hotels.
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