MUGSHOT: Man allegedly connected to California fertility clinic car bombing arrested at airport after fleeing the US

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From Fox News: An individual allegedly linked to the primary suspect in a car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic has been arrested, Fox News has learned.

The suspect, identified as 32-year-old Daniel Park, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City overnight, and is charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist. Park waived his identity and probable cause hearings in a Brooklyn federal courtroom Wednesday and is set to be transported to California to face prosecution.

Park allegedly supplied Guy Edward Bartkus with the materials needed to construct the explosives, with the last shipment arriving just days before the attack, according to United States Attorney Bill Essayli.

“Law enforcement learned that Park spent approximately two weeks visiting [the primary suspect’s] residence in 29 Palms in late January and early February of this year, spending time together running experiments [in the suspect’s] garage, where the FBI recovered large quantities of chemical precursors and laboratory equipment after the bombing,” Essayli said in a news conference.

Authorities used a cellphone recovered from the crime scene to identify Park, according to the criminal complaint. Park allegedly used an AI chatbot to search for information regarding assembling an explosive device just days before the attack, the complaint said.

Bartkus, 25, was killed in the horrifying suicide car bombing attack of the fertility clinic on May 17.

According to the Justice Department, after the bombing, Park fled the country.  However, he was caught in Poland and flown back to the U.S. to face charges.

The Justice Department provided the following details in a press release:

According to an affidavit filed with the complaint, Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, of Twentynine Palms, California, drove a car containing a bomb to a fertility clinic in Palm Springs on May 17. Bartkus detonated the bomb, killing himself, injuring numerous victims, destroying the fertility clinic’s building and damaging surrounding buildings and areas. Bartkus’s 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 consent and that non-existence is best.

Park – who shares Bartkus’s extremist views – shipped large quantities of explosive precursor materials to Bartkus, including approximately 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate. Days before the Palm Springs bombing, Park paid for an additional 90 pounds (40.8 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate that was shipped to Bartkus.

Park sent the first shipments of approximately 180 pounds (81.7 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus shortly before traveling to Bartkus’s residence, where he stayed with Bartkus from January 25 to February 8. Three days before Park arrived at Bartkus’s house, records from an AI chat application show that Bartkus researched how to make powerful explosions using ammonium nitrate and fuel.

During his stay at Bartkus’s residence, Park and Bartkus spent time in Bartkus’s room as well as in a detached garage “running experiments,” according to the affidavit. This was the same garage where law enforcement, during a search after the May 17 bombing, located significant amounts of chemicals commonly used in the construction of homemade bombs.

Four days after Bartkus conducted the suicide bombing, Park flew to Europe. On May 30, Park was detained in Poland and later was ordered deported to the United States.

If convicted, Park would face a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison, the DOJ reported.

The FBI Los Angeles office posted Park’s mugshot and wrote, “Daniel Jongyon Park, 32, of Kent, Washington, was arrested by FBI Agents at JFK Airport yesterday on charges alleging he provided material support to the Palm Springs fertility clinic bomber by shipping and paying for significant quantities of an explosive precursor.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a statement on X, “Bringing chaos and violence to a facility that exists to help women and mothers is a particularly cruel, disgusting crime that strikes at the very heart of our shared humanity. We are grateful to our partners in Poland who helped get this man back to America and we will prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. ”

FBI Director Kash Patel announced on social media Wednesday:

New from the FBI… I can confirm that this morning at JFK Airport, FBI Agents arrested an individual, Daniel Jongyon Park, on charges related to the bombing of the Palm Springs, CA fertility clinic in May.

Park is alleged to have provided material support to the fertility clinic bomber by shipping and paying for significant quantities of an explosive precursor.

Park had fled to Poland days after the bombing, where @TheJusticeDept @AGPamBondi led extradition efforts after our partners in Poland had detained him. This morning, the suspect was flown back to New York, where our agents arrested him. He will now face justice.

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