The FBI has arrested a man accused of planning an attack on the New York Stock Exchange

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb on the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, the FBI said.

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempting to use an explosive to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce.

The FBI began investigating Yener in February based on a tip that he was storing “bomb-making schematics” in a storage facility. According to the FBI, they found bomb-making sketches, many watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics that could be used to build explosives. According to the FBI, he had also searched online since 2017 for matters related to bomb making.

Yener also told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to detonate the bomb the week before Thanksgiving and that the Lower Manhattan Stock Exchange would be a popular target.

“The Exchange, we want to capitalize on that because it will wake people up,” he told undercover FBI agents, according to court documents.

Yener, who was described as “without a home,” wanted to bomb the stock exchange to “reboot” the U.S. government, explaining that it would be “like a small nuclear bomb going off,” killing everyone in the building. according to court documents. .

According to court documents, he had spent the past month rewiring two-way radios so they could serve as remote triggers for an explosive device. He planned to wear a disguise when planting the explosives.

Yener made his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon and will be held while he awaits trial.

He was known to post videos on YouTube channels about making explosives and fireworks from household items, and he had a history of making threats, according to court documents. He was fired from a restaurant in Coconut Creek, Florida, last year after his former supervisor said he threatened to “shoot up here in Parkland.”

He was also part of a small group that tried to join the far-right anti-government group the “ Boogaloo Bois “And extremist group the Proud Boys but he was denied membership because he said he wanted to “pursue martyrdom,” according to court documents.

The news was first reported by the website CourtWatch.

Calls to phone numbers listed in public records for Harun Abdul-Malik Yener went unanswered and an attorney was not listed in the court filings.