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U.S. authorities on Wednesday said they have arrested a man in Baltimore, Maryland, for plotting to bomb a military recruiting center, local media reported.
"A Baltimore man has been arrested (Wednesday) morning in connection with a scheme to attack an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland, with what he believed to be vehicle bomb," Marcia Murphy of the U.S. Attorney's Office was quoted by WBALTV, a local NBC affiliate, as saying.
According to the report, the target was an Armed Forces Career Center located in a Catonsville shopping center. The suspect allegedly wanted to blow up the recruiting center to harm military personnel.
However, Murphy said, "there was no actual danger to the public as the explosives were inert and the suspect had been carefully monitored by law enforcement for months."
The TV station said the suspect was a U.S. national of Nicaraguan descent who is a recent convert to Islam. He is scheduled to appear in court at 2 p.m.
Murphy said they discovered "no evidence this individual is tied to the recent shootings at military recruiting centers in the Washington, D.C., metro area."
The shootings took place in the past two months, in which the Pentagon, the National Marine Corps Museum and several military recruiting centers in Virginia were targeted. No people were harmed in those shootings.
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