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A Florida man has been charged with plotting to explode the New York Stock Exchange to “reboot” the U.S. authorities.

The FBI arrested Harun Abdul-Malik Yener on Wednesday, the bureau stated in an affidavit in Florida federal court docket.

The investigation into Yener started in February with a tip he was storing potential bombmaking supplies in a storage unit in Coral Springs, Florida, in accordance with the affidavit.

Inside, brokers discovered bombmaking sketches, watches with timers, digital circuit boards, and different electronics, per the court docket paperwork.

The affidavit describes Yener as unhoused.

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During a March interview with regulation enforcement, Yener reportedly instructed brokers that members of ISIS had beforehand tried to recruit him in 2015, an effort that was unsuccessful. He later stated he’d additionally tried to affix the Boogaloo Boys and Proud Boys however was rejected as a result of a “desire to pursue martyrdom.”

Yener then allegedly claimed he was “just waiting for some kind of hole to open up” to assault the United States.

Further investigation revealed Yener shared YouTube movies about making explosives and was fired from a restaurant final 12 months for threatening to deliver weapons to work and shoot his co-workers, claiming he “feels the way the Parkland shooter feels,” per the affidavit.

During conversations with confidential sources and undercover FBI brokers, Yener allegedly revealed additional particulars, together with his need to begin a “revolution” and his eventual conclusion to assault the inventory change with an improvised explosive system earlier than Thanksgiving to “wake people up.”

Yener additionally instructed the undercovers he deliberate to connect an inventory of calls for to the assault he hoped could be shared with media retailers, together with the mass deportation of unlawful immigrants and the top of arms gross sales to “foreign entities.”

He recorded the demand assertion earlier this month and instructed an undercover FBI worker, “I feel like [Osama] Bin Laden,” the deceased Al Qaeda chief.

Yener was arrested on Wednesday and is charged with trying to make use of an improvised explosive system to wreck or destroy a constructing utilized in interstate or international commerce.

The Independent was not instantly in a position to contact Yener, who’s being tried within the Southern District of Florida, for remark.