A Florida man was charged Wednesday with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, the Associated Press reports. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Fla., was charged with attempt to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce. The FBI began investigating Yener in February based on a tip he was storing “bombmaking schematics” in a storage unit. Agents found bomb-making sketches, watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics that could be used for building explosive devices. Yener had searched online for things related to bomb-making since 2017, the FBI said. He told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to detonate the bomb the week before Thanksgiving and that the stock exchange would be a popular site to target.
Yener, who was described as “unhoused,” said the explosion would resemble "a small nuke," killing everyone inside the building. In the last month, he had rewired two-way radios so that they could work as remote triggers for an explosive device and planned to wear a disguise when planting the explosives. Yener had his first court appearance Wednesday and will be detained. He posted videos on a YouTube channel about making explosives and fireworks from household items, and had a history of making threats. He was fired by a restaurant in Coconut Creek, Fla., after his former supervisor said he threatened to “go Parkland shooter in this place.” He was part of a group that tried to join the far-right anti-government group “Boogaloo Bois ” and extremist group Proud Boys but was denied membership because he said he wanted “to pursue martyrdom.”
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