JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 20-year-old Clay County man is under arrest, accused by the U.S. Attorneys office of instructing someone how to make a pressure-cooker bomb, fill it with nails, metal and other items dipped in rat poison in order to disrupt the Sept. 11 memorial in Kansas City, WJXT-TV reported.
After an undercover investigation, the FBI arrested Joshua Goldberg on charges of distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction. He faced a judge at the federal courthouse in Jacksonville on Thursday.
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According to U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley III, Goldberg instructed a confidential source how to make a bomb similar to two used in the Boston Marathon bombings two years ago that killed that killed three people and injured an estimated 264 others.
The arrest came after an investigation that included the FBI, the Clay County Sheriff's Office, NCIS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Jacksonville and St. Johns County sheriff's offices.