Washington man supplied chemicals used in California fertility clinic bombing, authorities say

Two men who met in fringe online forums tested explosives in the California desert that were later used to blow up a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, killing one of them and sending the other fleeing to Europe, where he was arrested and extradited to the U.S., federal authorities said Wednesday.

Daniel Park, 32, was taken into custody on Tuesday night at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after being deported from Poland, where he traveled four days after the bombing, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told reporters.

Federal authorities allege Park collaborated with Edward Bartkus for months before Bartkus bombed the clinic last month and was killed in the blast.

Park shipped at least 270 pounds of a chemical compound used as an explosive precursor to Bartkus and traveled earlier this year to Bartkus’ home in Twentynine Palms, California, where the two conducted experiments in bomb-making in his room and a garage, FBI’s assistant director in charge Akil Davis said.

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