WASHINGTON - FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday (Oct 31) that officials had stopped a potential attack in Michigan, arresting multiple people, without providing further details.
Five people, including some teenagers, were being questioned on Friday, according to two sources.
"This morning, the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend," Patel said in a post on X on Friday.
A Justice Department official said the plot had been expected to take place over Halloween weekend and was tied to international terrorism.
Police in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, said on social media that the FBI had conducted an operation in that city on Friday, adding that there was "no threat".
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