U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says it is only a matter of time before the suspect in last weekend's bombing in Chelsea is back in the city to face to federal charges.

Lynch says Ahmad Khan Rahami will be moved to New York in the "near future."

He is still recovering in a New Jersey hospital after a shootout with police.

Rahami faces a long list of federal charges, including using weapons of mass destruction and bombing of a public place.

Prosecutors in New Jersey have charged him with five counts of attempted murder of a police officer.

Investigators say Rahami detonated two explosives on Saturday, one on West 23rd Street which injured more than two-dozen people and another near the starting line of a charity race in New Jersey.

No one was hurt in that blast.

Federal authorities say Rahami's fingerprints were found on the un-detonated device recovered on West 27th Street that same day.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, federal law enforcement officials also say they have tracked down Rahami's wife, believed to be a Pakistani national.

They expect her to return to the U.S. soon.