FBI Director Patel says multiple people were arrested in Michigan in a Halloween weekend attack plot

WASHINGTON AP Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday morning in Michigan FBI Director Kash Patel stated in a social media post Patel didn t release further information about the arrests but disclosed more information would be coming Dearborn Police disclosed in a social media post that the department was made aware that the FBI conducted operations in the city on Friday and assured residents that there is no threat to the public Separately in May the FBI explained it arrested a man who had spent months planning an attack against a U S Army site in suburban Detroit on behalf of the Islamic State group The man Ammar Revealed didn t know that his supposed allies in the alleged plot were undercover FBI employees Reported remains in custody charged with attempting to provide endorsement to a terrorist organization The criminal complaint was replaced in September with a criminal information document signaling that a guilty plea is likely