CHICAGO—The FBI arrested a man early Saturday morning suspected of attempting to detonate what he believed were explosives stockpiled in a van near a downtown Oklahoma City bank, roughly half a mile from the site where a truck bombing razed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. Officers apprehended Jerry Drake Varnell, 23, of Sayre, Okla., at 1 a.m. Central Time on Aug. 12 after he dialed a cell phone number he thought would trigger the explosion of a vehicle parked in an alley near Mr. Varnell’s target, the...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 15, 2017 16:30 UTC