Suspect in palm springs ivf clinic bombing arrested at jfk airport

A Washington man suspected of helping a fellow “pro-mortalist” death cult member blow up a California IVF clinic last month is in custody after being extradited from Poland – as prosecutors

allege he supplied the bomber with hundreds of pounds of explosive chemicals. Daniel Jongyon Park, 32, was taken into federal custody Tuesday night at JFK International Airport after he was

escorted from the eastern European country he fled to four days after the May 17 bombing. He appeared before a Brooklyn judge for his arraignment Wednesday, where prosecutors alleged he

bought 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate – an explosive precursor commonly used in terrorist bomb-making – between January and May 2025, and shipped it to the alleged IVF clinic bomber Guy

Edward Bartkus. Days after the final shipment, Bartkus allegedly used the chemicals to build a homemade bomb and blew himself to pieces outside the American Reproductive Centers in Palm

Springs, injuring five people but failing to damage any of the embryos he is believed to have been targeting inside. Park and Bartkus were both a part of a death cult that held the deranged

belief that life itself was an aberration of nature, and an inherently wrong ordeal of suffering – arguing that babies didn’t “consent” to being born and that procreation was therefore

amoral. EXPLORE MORE Park’s twisted views started brewing as far back as high school, his family told investigators in a criminal complaint. In social media posts from 2016, he explained the

only reason he hadn’t committed suicide was because he was “sacrificing” himself “for the sake of preventing more suffering.” “A better question is what did you do to make other people not

have children,” he wrote in another post. “Dunno what I can do about other people. I just try to mention it when people seem like they’re willing to listen.” As recently as April, Park made

a post saying he would kill an island full of people if he could get away with it “to end their suffering and speed up the process of extinction of life on Earth.”   The deranged duo lived

together at Bartkus’ parents house in Twentynine Palms for two weeks before the attack, where Assistant US attorney Vincent Chiappini told Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak that they spent

their time “running experiments in the detached garage.” Investigators searching their makeshift garage lab found notes detailing chemical experiments, bomb making plans – which Bartkus

allegedly used an AI chatbot to research, according to the complaint — and additional unused chemicals. The chemicals Park allegedly bought were obtained and shipped in two phases – 180

bounds being sent to Bartkus in January, and 90 pounds being sent in May. After Bartkus blew himself up outside the IVF clinic, Park allegedly bought plane tickets to Poland with cash and

fled within days. The Washington state native is expected to make his initial appearance in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday afternoon before he’s shipped off to California, where he will

face prosecution, sources told The Post. He had been detained in Poland for two weeks before Attorney General Pam Bondi arranged for his extradition while she was visiting the country. Park

was rail-thin when he appeared in court Wednesday, where he wore a shirt reading “Fight like Ukrainians” and had a bandaged right hand. He was charged with providing or attempting to

provide material support to terrorists, with prosecutors saying there is “overwhelming evidence” against him. _Additional reporting by Ben Kochman and Joe Marino. _