Two years ago, an FBI informant met with a South Florida man who expressed his desire to join an anti-government militia and build a bomb targeting a New York City landmark, the FBI said. His plan: to plant an improvised explosive device outside the New York Stock Exchange the week before Thanksgiving 2024.
But at trial this week in Miami, Harun Abdul-Hamid Yener, 32, of Coral Springs, was found not guilty of all charges in a five-count indictment, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and threatening to assault and murder federal law enforcement officers.
The 12-person federal jury’s acquittal on Tuesday spared Yener of potentially decades in prison if he had been convicted of the main explosive charge. Yener, who had been detained without a bond since his arrest in November 2024, was allowed to go free…