A Florida man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after authorities say he was trying to help plan an attack on an upcoming 9/11 memorial in Missouri.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday that 20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg was arrested and charged with distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction.
A criminal complaint says Goldberg, of Orange Park, about 15 miles south of Jacksonville, began communicating online with an FBI informer in July and gave that person information on how to build a bomb with a pressure cooker, nails and rat poison. Goldberg also instructed the informant to place the bomb at a memorial in Kansas City.
However, Goldberg claimed that it wasn't his intention for the attack to be carried out but instead have the informant kill himself in the creation of the bomb or tell law enforcement before it would have been detonated.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Goldberg had an attorney to contact for comment on the case.
