A man is under arrest for allegedly plotting an attack during the UFC Freedom 250 event that took place over the weekend on Sunday (June 14) in celebration of both America’s 250th birthday and President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.
Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old man from Ohio, was arrested by FBI agents from the Cincinnati division last week and posed for a mugshot, obtained by TMZ.
Police claim that they got a call days before the event from his mother expressing concern about her son.
When officers went to his house, his dad allegedly told them his son met random people online to plan “recons,” and that he used $3,000 of graduation money to get “camping gear, ballistic plates, a couple guns, ammo, and extra magazines.” One alleged weapon is identified as an assault rifle painted like the American flag.
His mother claimed the unnamed group “expressed ultra-religious and anti-government” sentiments.
Tycen admitted to planning an attack during the UFC event on June 11, and the plan involved flying a drone full of explosives over the White House that would force an evacuation, with gunmen shooting targets to “jumpstart” a revolution in America, per the report.
Others have also been arrested in California, Missouri and Nebraska, according to federal officials via FOX19.
The teen allegedly wrote in one chat: “I got a possible target Marsha Blackburn is senator for Tennessee…she’s taken money from the Israel pro-Israel lobby and supports them,” via the affidavit.
In another chat, he allegedly wrote: “These are people we’re going to focus on,” along with images of members of Congress.
He is being held without bond at the Franklin County Jail on four federal charges that could lead to life in prison.
According to FOX19‘s report, those charges include “receipt or transfer of a firearm that will be used to commit a felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison, conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, punishable by up to 5 years in prison, attempted murder of a federal official, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. This charge has a mandatory minimum of 5 years and a maximum of life imprisonment.”
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