WASHINGTON (Reuters) -FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday 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."
(Reporting by Jana Winter, Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward; editing by Scott Malone and Franklin Paul and Chizu Nomiyama )
