STORY: :: June 4, 2025
:: Los Angeles
:: A man who allegedly provided chemicals for the California fertility clinic bombing has been arrested
:: Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California
“My office and the FBI are announcing the arrest of Daniel Park, a Washington state resident charged in a federal criminal complaint with Title 18, the United States Code Section 2339A, providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist, the man who committed a suicide car bombing of the American Reproductive Centers in Palm Springs, California.”
:: Palm Springs, California
:: May 18, 2025
“The sole fatality of last month’s act of terror was the bomber himself, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, California. The bomb injured numerous victims, destroyed the clinic’s building, and damaged surrounding buildings and areas, causing a debris field of approximately 250 yards in size. During the investigation, law enforcement learned of Bartkus’ pro-mortalist, anti-natalist, and anti-pro-life extremist ideology. We also learned that the bomber had help. Mr. Park, who shares Bartkus’ extremist beliefs, is accused of shipping approximately 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor commonly used to construct homemade bombs, to Bartkus.”
:: Akil Davis, Assistant Director, FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office
“Park was in possession of an explosive recipe that was similar to the Oklahoma City bomb.”
“I think our biggest fear is that, is fear of the unknown in that these two subjects weren’t really being tracked by any law enforcement agency and the fact that they could, on their own, put together such a destructive device.”
The suspect, Daniel Park, a 32-year-old man from Washington state, was taken into custody at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the officials said. He will make an initial appearance in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday afternoon and eventually face charges in California.
Park had been detained in Poland and deported by Polish authorities. U.S. officials were not clear why he had traveled to Poland and said he was not in southern California on the day of the bombing.
Officials alleged that Park secured 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate for Guy Bartkus, the primary suspect in the bombing. Ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, is also a material commonly used to construct homemade bombs, they said.
The officials charged Park with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist. Bartkus, 25, died in the blast.
A bomb detonated shortly before 11 a.m. local time on May 17 in or near a car parked outside the fertility clinic, operated by American Reproductive Center. In addition to the death of the primary suspect, several other people were injured, according to authorities.
