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

Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempting to use an explosive device 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 blueprints” in a storage facility. They found bomb-making blueprints, many timer clocks, electronic circuit boards and other electronic components that could be used to build explosive devices, according to the FBI. He also searched online for bomb-making material since 2017, according to the FBI.

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 site to target.

“The stock market, we want to hit this because it’s going to wake people up,” he told undercover FBI agents, according to court documents.

Yener, who was described as “homeless”, wanted to bomb the stock market to “reboot” the US government, explaining that it would be “like going off a little nuke”, killing everyone inside the building, according to court documents. .

In the past month, he rewired two-way radios so they could function as remote triggers for an explosive device and planned to wear a disguise when planting the explosives, according to court documents.

Yener had his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon and will be held pending trial.

He was known to post videos on a YouTube channel about making explosives and fireworks from household items and had a history of threats, according to court documents. He was fired last year from a restaurant in Coconut Creek, Fla., after his former supervisor said he threatened to “go to the Parkland shooter in this place.”

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

The news was first reported by CourtWatch.

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