Daniel Jongyon Park is facing terrorism charges after his arrest at JFK Airport.
The Korean American man from Seattle was taken into custody on June 3, 2025, for his role in a May fertility clinic bombing in California.
The FBI accuses Park of aiding the suicide bomber, 25-year-old Guy Edward Bartkus, by supplying 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate used for homemade bombs.
Park reportedly had an explosive recipe similar to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The FBI said Park and Bartkus believed that “no human should be born without their explicit consent.”
Park stayed with Bartkus in Twentynine Palms earlier this year. They allegedly tested bombs in a garage.
Bartkus detonated a car bomb outside the American Reproductive Centers clinic in Palm Springs. Four people were injured, Bartkus died. The FBI labeled the attack a terrorist act.
Bartkus was recorded saying:
Basically, I’m anti-life. And IVF is like kind of the epitome of pro-life ideology…
… It just comes down to I am angry that I exist, um, and that, uh, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here, and I know what you’re gonna say. How could we have got your consent because you didn’t exist, blah, blah, blah…
— Guy Bartkus
Park fled the US to Denmark, then Poland, but Polish authorities deported him back to the US. He was arrested promptly upon arrival.
The FBI suspects Park tried to recruit others online with his extremist beliefs.
Park appeared in federal court in New York on June 4, 2025, wearing a “Fight Like Ukrainians” T-shirt and a large white bandage on his hand.
If convicted, Park could face up to 15 years in federal prison.
Source: KTLA, BBC, LAist
