Coral Springs man accused of plotting to bomb Wall Street pleads not guilty

A Coral Springs man accused of plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange to “reset” the U.S. government has pleaded not guilty, court records show.

Harun Yener, 30, was arraigned in Miami federal court on Sept. 15 and entered his plea of not guilty after he was indicted on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to use an explosive, three counts of threatening to assault and murder a federal law enforcement officer and possession of child sexual abuse material.

The Coral Springs News reached out to Yener’s assigned public defenders for comment Sept. 25 but did not immediately receive a response.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into Yener in February 2024 after getting a tip that he was “storing bombmaking schematics in an unlocked storage unit in Coral Springs,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation wrote in an affidavit.

Agents said they searched his unit and found bombs drawings, timers, circuit boards and other evidence indicating Yener was working on building an explosive device.

When investigators interviewed him, Yener expressed interest in domestic terror organizations and said he was going to take some sort of action when the opportunity arose, according to the affidavit.

“I am just waiting for some kind of hole to open up and I can go, ah, there it is — I’ll know it when I see it,” he reportedly told agents, according to the affidavit.

Searches of his Internet history revealed he had been looking up how to make remote-controlled bombs, grenades, cellphone detonators and other similar topics since 2017, agents said.

Yener also threatened to kill the law enforcement officers who raided his storage unit in March, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a Sept. 24 news release.

In June 2024, several months after Yener’s storage unit was discovered, the FBI directed a confidential informant to begin communicating with Yener to learn more about his intentions, according to court documents.

During their recorded discussions, Yener told the informant he would need to recreate his bomb sketches after the FBI seized his notebooks earlier in the year, and he began researching possible locations and methods for carrying out an attack, agents said.

Yener then began meeting with an undercover FBI employee, divulging his desires to join a militia to instigate a “reboot,” adding, “This country is due for a revolution,” the affidavit says.

Together, they went to Walmart and bought a soldering kit, multimeter voltage reader and other items that Yener said he would need to make an explosive, according to the FBI.

Eventually, he told the undercover agent, who he believed to be a militia member, that he landed on the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan as his intended target, investigators said.

Over the next few months, he planned to launch the attack between the presidential election and Thanksgiving, according to the FBI.

The federal agency set him up with a work area, which he thought belonged to the militia, to start on his bomb-making, agents said.

“In October and November 2024, in a law enforcement-controlled secure location that he believed to be controlled by the militia, Yener re-wired two-way radios to function as a remote trigger for the explosive device,” according to the affidavit.

He asked undercover agents to obtain the explosive elements he needed and do reconnaissance at the Wall Street location to help him pick where to plant the bomb, which he likened to a “small nuke” going off, according to the FBI.

He also recorded a statement intended to be distributed to news outlets after the bombing, referencing his desire for other civilians to join their cause against the government.

When law enforcement searched Yener’s phones, they also found AI-generated content depicting child sexual abuse, prosecutors said.

Yener was arrested Nov. 20 and detained in federal prison, the Miami Herald reported.

He was indicted Aug. 27 and pleaded not guilty to the charges, appearing to set the case up for a jury trial, records show.

This story was originally published September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM.