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A Florida man was arrested over an alleged plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange this week, per FBI court documents filed Wednesday.
The big picture: Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, of Coral Springs, Fla., was charged with “attempting to use an improvised explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate or foreign commerce,” per the filing in the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida.
Driving the news: The FBI began investigating Yener in February after a receiving a tip alleging that he was “storing bombmaking schematics in an unlocked storage unit in Coral Springs,” according to the filing that was first reported by Court Watch.
- FBI special agents conducted a search and found “bombmaking sketches, numerous watches with timers, electronic circuit boards, and other electronics” in the storage unit “that could be used for constructing explosive devices,” the Bureau alleges.
- Agents allegedly discovered repeated internet searches dating back to 2017 on bombmaking by the U.S.-born Yener, whom the filing describes as “unhoused.”
Zoom in: The FBI alleges he planned to “build and detonate an improvised explosive device outside the NYSE the week before Thanksgiving.”
- Yener allegedly made multiple audio recordings that he discussed wanting to take to NBC News “either the day of his bombing of the NYSE or the day after,” according to the FBI.
- An undercover employee recorded him saying, “I feel like Bin Laden,” the FBI alleges.
- The undercover employee believed him to be part of an anti-government militia. “His stated motivation for bombing the NYSE was to attain a “reboot” and/or “reset” of the United States government,” per the FBI.
- The FBI alleges he believed “detonating an improvised explosive device will lead to a “reboot” and/or “reset” of the United States government” and allegedly said: “The Stock Exchange, we want to hit that, because it will wake people up.”