The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan.
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(Coral Springs, FL) — A homeless Florida man is under arrest for allegedly plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. Court documents say Harun Abdul-Malik Yener of Coral Springs wanted to “reset” the U.S. government.
He was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempting to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce. Yener got on the FBI’s radar in February after agents received a tip he was storing bomb-making schematics in a storage unit. The complaint says he targeted the week of November 18th as the date to carry out the bombing.
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.”
An undercover employee recorded him saying, “I feel like Bin Laden,” the FBI alleges.
