Federal authorities have arrested a man at Kennedy Airport in New York, who allegedly provided bomb parts for the attack on a fertility clinic in Palm Springs last month, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Sources said he was detained at the airport around 5 p.m. last night and he will be charged in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday afternoon in a charge related to the Palm Springs attack. Sources requested anonymity because they did not have the right to speak publicly about pending cases.
Sources identified the arrested man as Daniel Park, 32, of Kent, Washington.
U.S. attorneys in Los Angeles and senior FBI officials in the city are expected to announce the development of the case in a 9 a.m. Wednesday news conference. Los Angeles-based federal prosecutor Bill Essayli has previously said his office and the FBI will lead the investigation into the incident, which was marked as domestic terrorism.
Guy Edward Bartkus is believed to have committed suicide by detonating a bomb at the American Reproductive Center in Palm Springs on May 17, and injured at least four people.
The FBI described the functionality of the Palm Springs Blast, enough to damage buildings in several blocks, which was probably “the biggest bombing scene we encountered in Southern California,” eclipsed, with a 2018 SPA bombing exploded at Aliso Viejo in 2018.
Law enforcement sources told The Times that the bomber used a large amount of explosives – the bomb shredded his remains. Investigators have been studying how Bartkus gets a large cache of bomb material.
Law enforcement sources said authorities have retrieved explosive materials from Batcus’s home, and he is good at assembling explosive devices. He is also a long-time rocket maker.
FBI case investigators and law enforcement sources described Bartkus, 25, as having a “anti-primitive” conception, a conclusion that authorities contacted him by social media posts and other online material.
In those public posts, he argued that breeding without unborn consent is immoral and unreasonable, in a world of environmental harm, violence and overpopularity.
Authorities are searching for online trails to learn about Bartkus’ motivations, including a website dedicated to Palm Springs Bombing. It has a 30-minute record that shows it was uploaded when it exploded and promises to explode the video (never released). There are also YouTube videos under the web alias related to Bartkus, as well as topics on Reddit and suicide forums.
Among those, Bartkus is frustrated by the death of “Best Friend,” Sophie, a woman living in Washington who runs multiple social media sites that embrace radical feminism, vegetarianism and intentional suicide. She died in April and was allegedly shot by her partner in the head. The man told the police that he was acting as she asked.
