FBI Arrests Florida Man for Allegedly Urging Attack With Rat Poison Bomb

By MIKE LEVINE Sep 10, 2015, 8:14 PM ET

A Florida man who claims credit for inspiring the attempted terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, four months ago was arrested by the FBI today for allegedly urging an attack in Kansas City during a commemoration of the 9/11 attacks using a bomb with rat poison-laced shrapnel, according to the FBI.

The arrest came just hours before the head of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division issued a notice to agents across the country, urging them “to exercise vigilance” even though “there are no specific threats” against the United States at home or abroad tied to the 14th anniversary of the tragedy.

“(I) would like to remind offices of the role social media can play in furthering terrorist rhetoric and inciting violence,” Assistant Director Michael Steinbach wrote in his message. “Individuals inspired by this messaging can rapidly mobilize to violence.”

Earlier today, 20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg was arrested at his home in Orange Park, Florida.

In late July, the FBI directed a confidential source to make contact with him after he posted extremist messages online posing as a Lebanese refugee living in Australia, according to charging documents.

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