A Florida man has been charged with plotting to set off a backpack bomb at a beach, after becoming inspired by the terror group ISIS, federal officials said Tuesday.
Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West — who also called himself Almlak Benitez — was arrested Monday after he received what he thought was a working bomb but which was actually a phony device provided by the FBI, the feds said.
“I can go to the beach at night time … put the thing in the sand … cover it up … so next day I just call and the thing is gonna, is gonna make … a real hard noise from nowhere,” Suarez allegedly told a confidential source about his alleged plan to detonate bomb that could be activated by a cell phone, according to a criminal complaint.
Suarez is charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property within the United States, federal prosecutors said.
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