The FBI foiled an alleged terrorist plot targeting the UFC America 250 event at the White House over the weekend, leading to five arrests so far.
“On June 10, FBI and our law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to the UFC America 250 event in Washington, D.C. involving individuals outside of the National Capital Region – and thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold,” said FBI Director Kash Patel on X.
The FBI worked in conjunction with the Secret Service to dismantle the alleged plot after first learning of it on June 10.
Fox first reported the details on Tuesday, and their reporting was then reposted by Patel.
The plot allegedly involved a plan by terrorists to use explosive drones to target buildings near the UFC event, cause a mass evacuation, and funnel evacuating crowds towards a sniper team.
Officials told FOX that the terrorists also planned a second wave involving storming the White House.
After the FBI became aware of the plot, they reportedly secured an arrest warrant for Tycen Proper, 19, who was arrested in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Agents arrested Bryan Omar Roa and Michael Alan Thomas in California for their alleged role in the plot and charged them with conspiracy to commit murder.
The other suspects, not named by Fox, were arrested in Missouri and Nebraska. All five suspects were reportedly American citizens.
The criminal complaint obtained by Fox showed that Proper spent $3,000 he received in graduation gifts on weapons and materials for the alleged plot.
He reportedly obtained thousands of rounds of ammunition, and his family handed over his rifle painted with an American flag.
Proper’s father allegedly informed police that he had quit his job to meet with online friends for “missions.” The father first alerted the FBI of his son after his recent purchase and online communications.
Investigators reportedly found a Signal chat in which at least 23 people discussed plans for the attack. Some of the people on the chat reportedly planned to travel to Fredericksburg, Virginia, to plan the attack.
It is not clear whether any of the other people on the chat will be arrested or charged.
One suspect reportedly told law enforcement that the goal of the plan was to hurt capitalist elites, billionaires, and recipients of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) political funds.
This is what the liberal media does, brainwash weak minds into terrorists
We need to have a mandatory federal death penalty for terrorists like this .
No, we do not want to execute people like this. That place in Florence Colorado looks bleak enough to make one wish one was dead, and them rot there.
You want to have these people around because when something happens 2, 3, 10 years from now, authorities, having a chat with some of these people could be incredibly valuable. And after many years incarceration, it’s amazing how much information you can get with a loaf of bread or a few dollars in a canteen account.
Killing them merely makes them Martyrs. Far better to have them around as a resource.
The problem in today’s world is all the technology and anybody that’s in their 60s and probably 50s just looked back when you were 19 because we only had three channels in Portland Maine channel 6,8,13 and if you had a good antenna 10 and 11, but we only had landline in your house to call friends. We all had meeting places you didn’t text to find out where you are or call on the phone while you’re just walking around outside all this technology as weaken their brain and brainwashed them probably need to find a way to. I don’t know find a way to hide all this technology from a child until they’re old enough to drive and keep it away from them until they’re twenty just so they can work their brain and not have all this technology in front of them. That would be the only thing that I would say needs to be done but will never happen and the other thing I believe is we need to bring back mental hospitals like when we had PineLand because a lot of the people that were in there, probably aren’t getting the care they need. That’s my two cents.
No Ed ……EXECUTE them !
We don’t need to spend ten cents feeding and housing them .
Otherwise we run the risk of the next generation of snowflake’s snowflakes releasing them for good behavior .
Execute them publicly ….let everyone see and know what awaits them when do these terrorist acts .
No mercy for the wickedest among us !