Five years ago, Ahmad Rahami, his father, and his brother filed a federal civil suit against Elizabeth and its police department, alleging officers tried to "harass and intimidate" them at First American Fried Chicken, which his family owns

Ahmad Khan Rahami, named as a person of interest in bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey on Saturday, filed a lawsuit in 2011 against the Elizabeth, New Jersey, police force, claiming officers harassed him and his family for being Muslim, PEOPLE confirms.

Rahami, 28, was apprehended Monday morning in Linden, New Jersey, following a shootout with police that injured Rahami and two officers, PEOPLE confirms. A small bomb was allegedly recovered from the area.

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Five years ago, Rahami, his father, and his brother filed a federal civil suit against Elizabeth and its police department, alleging that officers tried to “harass and intimidate” them at First American Fried Chicken, the restaurant owned by Rahami’s parents, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.

The suit alleges that between 2008 and 2011, officers were dispatched to the restaurant on numerous occasions to issue summonses for allegedly staying open past 10 p.m., which is illegal. But the suit alleges the summonses were “baseless” and “unfounded.”

The lawsuit additionally names a local businessman, alleging he was the one who kept calling Elizabeth police to complain about First American Fried Chicken’s hours of operation. The suit alleges this businessman, who could not be reached for comment, has a history of making discriminatory comments about Muslims.

According to the suit, the businessman entered Rahami’s parents’ restaurant soon after it first opened, and commented, “You are Muslims,” and “Muslims make too much trouble in this country.”

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The businessman also allegedly said “Muslims don’t belong here.”

The suit alleges local police did little to verify the validity of the complaints, and that the harassment from the police visits forced the Rahamis to close their business promptly at 10 p.m., resulting in substantial revenue losses.

In its response, lawyers for the Elizabeth Police Department denied all of the allegations against it outlined in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in Newark, says that the family is from Afghanistan and are all Muslims who have owned the chicken restaurant since 2002.

Court records show the lawsuit was resolved in 2012, when a judge moved to dismiss the filing.

Rahami lived with his parents above the fried chicken restaurant.

Saturday night’s explosion in Chelsea injured 29 people, all of whom have since been released from the hospital, NBC News reports.

New Jersey State Police said Monday that the bombings in Chelsea and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park were connected, according to multiple reports. No one was injured in the Seaside Park bombing.

A federal source confirms to PEOPLE that the same model flip-style cell phone was used as a detonator for the two bombs in Chelsea (a second device was discovered on Saturday night and disarmed by authorities) and the bomb that went off ahead of a charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey, which is about 85 miles south of Manhattan. Both bombings occurred within hours of each other on Saturday.

The federal source says Rahami is considered separate from the five people who were detained by the FBI on Sunday night. Those individuals were taken in for questioning during a traffic stop at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the bridge that connects the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island. The FBI states that no one has been charged with any crime as the investigation is ongoing.

Early Monday morning a police robot detonated a backpack full of pipe bombs in Elizabeth, which is about 20 miles from Manhattan. A federal source tells PEOPLE that it unclear if the same style of flip-phone was connected to the bombs found in Elizabeth.