FBI: Two People In Ohio Charged For Plotting Separate Terrorist Attacks

Source: Talking Points Memo/The AP



By JOHN SEEWER

December 10, 2018 3:41 pm

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Federal authorities said they’ve charged two people involved in planning separate large-scale attacks — one who wanted to carry out a shooting at a synagogue and another who had been plotting a bar shooting and blowing up a pipeline.

While the alleged attacks were in the planning stages, there was never an immediate threat to the public, the FBI and Department of Justice said Monday in a news conference announcing the charges.

Both suspects who are from the Toledo area had identified specific places they wanted to target, authorities said.

The two have been under investigation for months and had talked about their plans with undercover FBI agents, according to the Justice Department.

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