Cellphone alert used for 1st time in US to nab terror suspect

In a first, authorities in the US used a cellphone alert to ask millions of New Yorkers to help nab 28-year-old naturalised American citizen of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for the weekend bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey. The Wireless Emergency Alerts system was deployed, believed for the first time ever to issue an alert relating to a terror probe.