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   STATEN ISLAND -- Police sources say they have a "person of interest" in custody in connection with a string of fake bombs planted across the Island this month -- a jealous ex-lover hoping to get the police to arrest his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend. 
   
   
   
   Though no charges have been filed yet, investigators believe that "hoax devices" were left in Port Richmond, Randall Manor and Grymes Hill as part of a grudge between the two men, sources said. 
   
   At least one device had a note written in Spanish accompanying it, those sources said. 
   
   The most recent device, found in a computer bag on Saturday outside a home on Duncan Road in Grymes Hill, contained a propane container, with what looked like wires coming out, connected to another container of liquid, according to law enforcement sources. It wouldn't have exploded, those sources said. 
   
   Police found two similar devices earlier this month -- one on Sept. 12, in a backpack by a black Toyota on Brentwood Avenue in Randall Manor, the other on Sept. 2, in a suitcase on an uninhabited stretch of Barrett Avenue just behind the Forest Avenue Shoppers Town strip mall in Port Richmond. 
   
   The devices spurred the NYPD to form a task force over the weekend. 
   
   Police also responded to four separate false alarms involving discarded bags since the first device was found. 
   
   Police sources say that investigators don't believe terrorism to be a motive in the creation of the devices. ||||| Madman Staten Island bomber arrested after leaving three devices around borough: authorities The 54-year-old suspect was fueled by jealousy - his target was a man who lived on his block and recently married a woman the suspect liked, authorities said. 
   
   The madman bomber responsible for leaving three inert devices on Staten Island was taken into custody Wednesday — and police believe he may have been fueled by jealousy, authorities said. 
   
   Cops took the 54-year-old suspect in for questioning at his job in Manhattan. 
   
   The bomber was lovestruck by a woman, 32, who lived nearby and had just gotten married this past Saturday - the day of the final incident — and the suspect was targeting the woman’s beau, officials said. 
   
   All three know each other and live on the same block. 
   
   The note left behind at each device had the 35-year-old target’s name and address. 
   
   The suspect, whose name was not released, is being questioned at the 121st Precinct stationhouse. Charges are pending. 
   
   "He, we believe, is the person responsible for the 3 incidents on Staten Island,” said Deputy Commissioner John McCarthy, the NYPD’s top spokesman. 
   
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   The suspect’s spree had triggered an all-out manhunt by the NYPD, sources said Wednesday. 
   
   A task force of about 10 investigators has been put together to arrest the person who left three bombs in residential areas around the borough beginning on Sept. 2, police sources said. 
   
   The homemade devices — propane cylinders duct taped to vials filled with gasoline attached to a container of nails and screws — were found inside laptop bags with wires sticking out of them, officials said. 
   
   At least one of the devices had a nine-volt battery attached to it, police sources said. Another came with a clock, but the clock was not wired to the device. 
   
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   All three of the bombs had a threatening note in Spanish attached to them, a source said. 
   
   Cops are concerned because if the devices were rigged properly, they could have exploded. 
   
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   “Whenever you have propane and gas and you can light it, you will have some sort of explosion that will cause damage,” a police source said. 
   
   Cops evacuated nine homes on Cornell St. near Decker Ave. in Elm Park on Sept. 2 after the first fake bomb was discovered. 
   
   Members of the NYPD Bomb Squad deployed a robot to open the laptop bag and inspect the would-be bomb, which didn’t contain an explosive. 
   
   “Nothing like this has ever happened here,” Elm Park resident Nievas Pavia, 31, who lived near where the laptop bag was discovered, told the Daily News at the time. 
   
   “We were shocked and worried because we weren't told anything... just that we had to leave.” 
   
   The second device — the only one not found in a laptop case — was was found sitting next to a parked car on Brentwood Ave. near Henderson Ave. in Randall Manor, officials said. 
   
   A crew of sanitation workers accidentally picked up the third gadget — which was placed among some garbage bags —on Duncan Road near Silver Lake Park at 8 a.m. Saturday. 
   
   Nearby houses were evacuated as the NYPD bomb squad investigated. 
   
   Cops are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
target: – A 54-year-old man is accused of planting three inert bombs around Staten Island in order to frame the husband of a neighborhood woman he liked, reports the Staten Island Advance. Police say the man left his homemade devices in residential areas over the last month, reports the Daily News, which describes them as "propane cylinders duct taped to vials filled with gasoline attached to a container of nails and screws." As constructed, they apparently wouldn't have been able to explode, say police, though it's not clear whether that was by design or ignorance. The man was reportedly smitten with a 32-year-old woman in his neighborhood—the Advance says he was her ex-boyfriend—and apparently none too happy that she recently got married. With each device was an angry note that implicated her husband, says the Daily News. The suspect was being questioned this afternoon, and charges are pending. "He, we believe, is the person responsible for the three incidents on Staten Island,” says an NYPD spokesperson.