Two more suspects have reportedly been arrested in connection with the alleged Halloween terror plot in Michigan.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News that 19-year-old Milo Sedanet, from Montclair, New Jersey, was arrested at Newark Airport before he could board a flight to Turkey.
According to ABC News' law enforcement sources, there were searches at a home in New Jersey and Seattle as part of the investigation.
We're told an NYPD undercover unit had been monitoring Sedanet, who was allegedly in communication with the two Dearborn men who were arrested last week after raids at their homes.
According to the sources, Sedanet was part of the group and had reportedly planned to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to join ISIS later this month, but it's believed he got spooked and moved his flight up after the arrests in Dearborn.
NBC News also reported that another New Jersey man was arrested. That man, according to NBC News, was identified as Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal.
The federal government has charged two Michigan men after they allegedly conspired to commit an act of terrorism over Halloween weekend, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday.
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Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, both residents of Dearborn, have been charged with gun crimes. The criminal complaint also references two co-conspirators and a juvenile in the alleged plot that the feds say the individuals were planning to carry out on behalf of ISIS.
According to the criminal complaint that detailed an investigation spanning several months, the conspirators had purchased multiple AR-15-style weapons, tactical gear, and had been documented practicing at local gun ranges and looking for possible attack locations.
Read the full complaint below:
Conversations between the five individuals, who reportedly referred to themselves as "brothers," happened on encrypted communication applications and referenced an attack on "pumpkin day," which the feds believe was in reference to Halloween.
“I gotta do the pumpkin for real . . . if [UI] don’t do the pumpkin I’m gonna slit my wrists," Ali said, according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint says that Ali and Mahmoud traveled together and scouted possible attack locations in Ferndale on September 19 and 20, including three bars on Woodward Avenue. Investigators believe they were possibly targeting LGBTQ+-friendly locations.
ADDITIONAL REPORT: Suspect scouted LGBTQ+ bars in Ferndale
"Given that Person 1, Ali, and Mahmoud are all under twenty-one-years old and based on what I have learned during this investigation, I believe it is unlikely Person 1, Ali, and Mahmoud would have traveled to this area at this time to patronize these clubs or drink alcohol," the criminal complaint reads.
During the raids conducted at homes in Dearborn on Friday, Oct. 31, agents recovered three AR-15 style rifles, two shotguns, four handguns and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition compatible with the rifles.
They also found optical sights, two GoPro cameras, a flash suppressor, tactical vests and other related firearms parts and accessories.
Separately, in a storage unit in Inkster where agents also searched, they found two more chest rig vests, tactical backpacks and 24 empty magazines compatible with the three seized AR-15 style rifles.
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The complaint comes after FBI Director Kash Patel announced on social media on Friday that the agency had thwarted a potential terror attack planned for Halloween weekend in Michigan.
Over the weekend, a Michigan defense attorney representing one of the suspects disputed Patel's claim, saying the allegations could stem from talks on an online video game.
At the last known address of Ali, the Scripps News Group met a woman who would not identify herself and declined to comment through a gap in the front door.
At another home where Mahmoud was last known to live, cars were parked outside, but there was no response at the door.
“It’s serious, I think. I think it's worth looking into. If they're innocent, our system, I think, will prove them innocent,” neighbor John Lodwig said. “I don’t think our FBI spends their time watching kids play games, do you? A defense attorney's going to have to say what a defense attorney would say, and I would be making up some kind of a story like that if I was a defense attorney. But I don’t believe that.”
Retired FBI Assistant Director Dan Roberts said the criminal complaint is one of the lengthiest he's seen in more than 30 years of law enforcement.
“There’s a lot of interesting things in the criminal complaint, but at the heart of it is a gun charge, which is used, as you know, greatly in federal indictments,” Roberts said. “It’s all very disturbing. There was large quantities of ammunition... 15, 16 hundred rounds of ammo.”
“The Ferndale locations, that's also really interesting because of the fact that ISIS, we know, has targeted LGBTQ operations in the past.”
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Former U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider combed through the federal complaint, which explains why the FBI felt the attack was imminent, using undercover informants. They had been following communications between the men and others since 2024.
“It’s clear that law enforcement made that judgment call that they needed to act quickly before lives were at stake,” Schneider said.
“The most compelling evidence in a case like this is usually, the statements of the defendants themselves, whatever they actually said and in this case, it looks like there are text messages, there are exchanges."
Schneider says he expects more charges to come against Ali and Mahmoud in the coming weeks, and more information to be disclosed in the indictment.
“This is just the complaint. It’s the initial charge, where the government has to put something on paper in order to get people charged and get them detained,” Schneider said.
