A Washington man is charged with providing large amounts of chemicals used in a car bomb outside a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic last month, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Daniel Jongyon Park, 32, of Kent, Washington, was arrested in Poland, where he had traveled after the May 17 car bombing outside the American Reproductive Centers clinic in Palm Springs, and was then sent to the United States, federal prosecutors said. He was arrested overnight after his plane arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, officials said. Park was charged in a federal complaint with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, told reporters Wednesday.
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Source: NBC News
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