Group planned to attack White House UFC event using snipers and drones, FBI says
The FBI thwarted a plot targeting Sunday’s UFC event at the White House and has arrested five men, the US justice department said on Tuesday. Part of the plan involved striking nearby buildings with explosive-laden drones and firing on “high value targets”, prosecutors alleged. One suspect was arrested in Ohio last week, where investigators reviewed […] The post Group planned to attack White House UFC event using snipers and drones, FBI says appeared first on The Namibian .
The FBI thwarted a plot targeting Sunday’s UFC event at the White House and has arrested five men, the US justice department said on Tuesday.
Part of the plan involved striking nearby buildings with explosive-laden drones and firing on “high value targets”, prosecutors alleged.
One suspect was arrested in Ohio last week, where investigators reviewed encrypted messagesinvolving other allegedconspirators. Prosecutors said in charging documents they had allegedly “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments”.
“Allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold,” FBI Director Kash Patelposted on social media on Tuesday about the “multi-state operation”.
The suspects were identified as Tycen C Proper, 19, the suspect arrested in Ohio, along with Bryan Omar Roa, 24, and Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of California, Daniel K Eskridge, 32, of Missouri and Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Nebraska. They were arrested across the four US states and each have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.
