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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT\/Gray News) – The arrest of five suspects, including the alleged ringleader, in a foiled plot to attack the White House UFC show on Sunday was announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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FBI Director Kash Patel made the announcement on social media that law enforcement officials had disrupted \u201cplanned attacks\u201d meant to target the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend, and that multiple people were in custody.<\/p>\n

A Department of Justice update issued Tuesday afternoon said that five people had been arrested during the investigation, including Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha.<\/p>\n

Authorities noted that they believe Alavarez was the leader of the group behind a plot to orchestrate a mass-casualty event at the White House. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe conspirators allegedly planned to deploy drones armed with explosives in and around the UFC Freedom 250 event to force an evacuation of the event and then planned to deploy snipers to fire upon \u2018high-value targets\u2019 within the fleeing crowd,\u201d the DOJ release stated.<\/p>\n

It was unclear from the court records how close the would-be attackers could have come to being able to carry out the plan had it not been thwarted.<\/p>\n

Alvarez was arrested on Sunday in a raid on an old church in the small town of Western in Nebraska, federal court records stated. The 31-year-old was said to have intended the location to be the \u201csafe zone\u201d for the group he was leading. <\/p>\n

Records show that he owns the church building where the raid took place.<\/p>\n

Alvarez was booked on federal charges of conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S. and conspiracy to commit murder. He appeared in front of a judge via video conference on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

In their announcement of the arrests, the DOJ said investigators found their way to Alvarez while investigating Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio, who was one of the suspects arrested in the case.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Proper allegedly had been stockpiling weapons and communicating with groups online.<\/p>\n

Authorities said Proper was flagged by his parents over concerns about the recent firearms purchases and online communications. <\/p>\n

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Proper\u2019s parents allegedly said their son had \u201crecently met random people online and had been planning \u2018recons\u2019 with these individuals,\u201d documents stated. <\/p>\n

Authorities then executed a search warrant at Proper\u2019s home in Ohio, confiscating an iPhone and uncovering online chats with someone called \u201cShepherd,\u201d a user investigators say was Alvarez. <\/p>\n

According to court records, Proper told authorities the two of them connected after Alvarez posted on TikTok about the UFC event happening at the White House. Eventually, they moved the conversation to an encrypted messaging app, where investigators say plans for the attack were coordinated.<\/p>\n

Court records stated that Proper said the group would meet in Virginia and use drones during a demonstration to blow up the north side of the UFC arena, then shoot the crowd as they evacuated to the south. <\/p>\n

Snipers would focus on high-value targets, like wealthy people and politicians, in order to jumpstart a revolution, the documents stated.<\/p>\n

Investigators said Alvarez posted a large portion of the planning information and provided direction to the other members in a group chat. He also discussed locations for snipers and drones, where to fall back after the attack, and that the Thomas Jefferson Memorial offered the \u201ccleanest route to exfiltrate from the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s top targets, per Alvarez, were allegedly President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Tesla\/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God that our national leaders, including President Trump, are safe, and thank God for the brave men and women of law enforcement everywhere in this country for the work they do to protect the innocent from anarchy and violence,\u201d Ohio Governor Mike DeWine shared following the DOJ\u2019s arrest announcement.<\/p>\n

The other suspects facing charges in the case have been identified as Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, Calif.; Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, Calif.; and Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Mo.<\/p>\n

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