The U.S. Department of Justice says a man from Kent, Washington at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City overnight related to the investigation into last month’s bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California.
According to a news release from the department, 32-year-old Daniel Park is accused of paying for “significant amounts of ammonium nitrate” before the May 17 attack at American Reproductive Centers.
He was arrested Tuesday night shortly after he flew into New York from Poland.
“We must strive to prevent another attack like this, and the way we do that is to learn everything we can about what exactly caused the explosion, who knew about it, or planned it, and why,” said Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.
Park is scheduled to appear in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on Wednesday afternoon and is expected to be prosecuted in Los Angeles.
If convicted, Park would face a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years infederal prison.
According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus from Twentynine Palms, California, drove a car containing a bomb into the facility and detonated a bomb, killing himself and injuring numerous other people.
The Department of Justice says the attack was motivated by his” pro-mortalism, anti-natalism, and anti-pro-life ideology, which is the belief that individuals should not be born without their consentand that non-existence is best.”
The FBI has called the attack an “intentional act of terrorism.”
People reportedly felt the explosion more than a mile away from the clinic.
The clinic reopened about two weeks later at a new location.
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