PALM SPRINGS, CA — Federal authorities arrested a Washington state man accused of aiding the bomber who targeted a Southern California fertility clinic last month, in what the FBI has called an intentional act of terrorism.
Daniel Park, 32, of Washington state, was arrested in Poland and taken into custody by the FBI at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI announced during a news conference on June 4. Authorities accused Park of collaborating with suspect Guy Edward Bartkus, who died in the May 17 explosion.
"During the investigation, law enforcement learned of Bartkus' pro-mortalist, anti-natalist and anti-pro-life extremist ideology," U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said at the news conference. "We also learned that the bomber had help."
Park, who is a U.S. citizen, was arrested on suspicion of providing material support to a terrorist, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The FBI alleged Park shipped ammonium nitrate to Bartkus and visited him in January and February this year.
U.S. Marshals arrested Park at the airport on June 3 after he returned to the United States from Poland, according to Essayli and Ciaran McEvoy, spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office. Authorities said Park had traveled to Europe four days after the suicide bombing and was detained in Poland on May 30.
