FBI arrest man over 'Oklahoma bank bomb plot'
The FBI has arrested a 23-year-old man who allegedly attempted to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank.
Jerry Drake Varnell of Sayre, Oklahoma, was arrested on Saturday in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb in Oklahoma City.
A federal complaint said the FBI learned in December that Varnell wanted to blow up a building and that an undercover FBI agent posed as someone who could help.
Officials alleged Varnell initially wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, DC, with a device similar to one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Varnell is scheduled to appear in federal court on Monday afternoon on a charge of attempting to use explosives to destroy a building in interstate commerce.
AP
