Potential terrorist attack’ thwarted in Michigan: FBI

(NewsNation) — Multiple people have been accused of planning a “potential terrorist attack” in Michigan over the Halloween weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday.

Details about the suspects and their alleged plans have not yet been made public. Patel said “multiple subjects” were arrested in Michigan on Friday morning, and federal agents were seen at two homes in Dearborn.

Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said federal agents “disrupted a Jihadi terror plot.”

The FBI’s Detroit field office confirmed agents were in the nearby cities of Dearborn and Inkster on Friday morning “conducting law enforcement activities” but did not directly connect their presence to Patel’s statement.

“More details to come,” Patel wrote on social media. “Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland.”

There was no ongoing threat to public safety, according to the Detroit field office.

NewsNation national security contributor Tracy Walder said she is familiar with the area from past events around Detroit, including another foiled plot earlier this year.

“I certainly don’t want to make generalizations about entire communities, but this is a community and plot that I have worked through, even back in 2000 when I first started at the CIA,” Walder said.