Posted on 06/16/2026 10:07:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The FBI thwarted a plot targeting Sunday's UFC event at the White House, and has taken multiple suspects into custody, according to the agency's head, Kash Patel.
Part of the plan involved striking nearby buildings with explosive-laden drones, according to court documents unsealed on Tuesday.
One suspect was arrested in Ohio last week, where investigators obtained access to encrypted messages involving other alleged plotters. He has been charged with conspiracy to commit an offence against the US and attempted murder of a federal officer, according to the documents.
"Allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold," Patel said in a social media post on Tuesday about the "multi-state operation".
Five people are in custody, CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, reported. The BBC has requested further comment from the FBI.
By using the drones, the plotters aimed to spark panic and draw the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team, according to the court documents.. A "second wave" of attackers then allegedly was supposed to storm the White House gate.
An estimated 4,300 people were present for the invite-only event on the South Lawn - and another 85,000 were able to watch at a nearby fan zone - as 14 mixed martial arts fighters competed in back-to-back fights on Sunday,
The plot was discovered through Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old Ohio man, who was communicating with a group online who "expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments," federal prosecutors said in the unsealed charges.
His mother called local authorities late in the evening on 10 June - just days before the high-profile event - because she was concerned about his large firearms purchases and what she had seen of his online communication with a group that claimed to be made up of former military members and Christian-based.
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I could use many more details on just how this was thwarted.
[And I’ve long believed in and used thwarts....]
Heaven help us if they’re ever successful at one of these attempts, given the passivity of most everyone on the right.
To our LE and Patel...Thank You.
Now tell Congress to extend FISA. Maybe they don't remember 9-11....and "the wall" that let it happen.
Thank God this was stopped..I figured for an event like this the whack jobs wanted to stop it, heck they were praying for rain and mosquitos to cancel it, they are certifiably insane that walk among us
What are you trying to say>
SAVE ACT first
"Christian-based"
Kash Patel, if your FBI was able to see the warnings, act on them in a timely manner and prevent a terrible event from unfolding, you have earned my respect. It’s a feather in your executive Cap.
The progressives and anarchists of today
don’t provoke just to see themselves on the evening news, they play for keeps, believing conservative lives just do not matter in the least.
Okay. I'm old enough to remember how Oklahoma City got spun for Clinton and the Democrats and DC in general. Color me skeptical.
Bookmark
That one glows a bit.
The SAVE ACT is a great concept and is certainly inferred by the Constitution but getting the seats right where the Dems loaded districts with immigrants for the census and picked up seats.
Cheating is still about "inserting" votes and/or tossing others is still open season.
And I don't want to be spied on. If there is a safeguard, it can't be as it currently exists, because it's been used as a tool to go after Americans who have done nothing wrong--you know, like the man who is currently President.
I was thinking along those lines too.
You’re not going to be spied on. Geeeez...unless you’re tied to some very bad people. Even you know that. Maybe learn a bit more how FISA works...
From the time I learned about this proposed event, I had fears of a bunch of anti-American anal orifices using it as an opportunity to attack and murder thousands. I am so thankful it did not happen. Let the anti-American anal orifices develop a painful and fatal disease, damn them.
Warrantless searches of the NSA database? No thanks.
The week-kneed Stupid Party will never head in this direction because they’re subject to the chant from the masses, “That’s not who we are.”
Doesn’t sound very Christian
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