A man from Coral Springs, Florida, was arrested on Nov. 20 for an alleged plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange this week.
Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, was charged with attempting to use an improvised explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate or foreign commerce, according to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
An investigation into Yener was opened in February following a tip-off that he was storing bomb-making schematics in an unlocked storage unit in Coral Springs, according to the FBI summary in court documents.
They found bomb-making sketches, watches with timers, electronic circuit boards, and other electronics that could be used for building explosive devices, the FBI said in court documents. Agents also discovered Yener had conducted searches online related to bomb-making since 2017, according to the FBI….