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FBI Stops White House UFC Attack Cold | Crime Alert 06.17.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvani. A chilling domestic terror plot targeting last
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  Speaker 2: weekend's UFC event at the White House has been uncovered,
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  Speaker 2: involving explosively and drones, snipers, and an online network aiming
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  Speaker 2: to spark a violent revolution. According to federal court records,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen year old Tyson Proper of Ohio faces severe federal charges,
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  Speaker 2: including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States,
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  Speaker 2: attempted murder of a US officer or employee, possession of
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  Speaker 2: a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in
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  Speaker 2: the transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony.
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  Speaker 2: The charges stem from an alleged plot targeting the June
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  Speaker 2: fourteenth UFC event held on the White House South Lawn,
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  Speaker 2: which was attended by President Donald Trump and other high
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  Speaker 2: ranking government officials. An FBI affidavit filed by Task Force
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  Speaker 2: Officer Christopher Betts reveals that authorities first became aware of
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  Speaker 2: the imminent threat on June tenth, after Proppers contacted law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement out of concern over her son's recent behavior. Propper's
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  Speaker 2: father told responding officers that the teenager had recently connected
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  Speaker 2: with extremists online, purchased multiple firearms, body armour, and other
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  Speaker 2: tactical equipment, and planned to leave home that weekend to
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  Speaker 2: meet members of the group. The family voluntarily surrendered the
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  Speaker 2: weapons and gear to authorities. Investigators later recovered photographs on
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  Speaker 2: the teen's phone showing large quantities of ammunition, two plate
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  Speaker 2: carriers loaded with AR style magazines, an AR style rifle,
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  Speaker 2: and a bullpup rifle painted with an American flag. The
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  Speaker 2: affadavit states that Proper was subsequently transported to a local
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  Speaker 2: hospital for emergency admission based on what investigators described as
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  Speaker 2: homicidal ideation. In interviews with investigators, Proper's mother alleged she
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  Speaker 2: had recently become involved with an online group made up
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  Speaker 2: of individuals who claimed to be former military members and
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  Speaker 2: promoted extreme religious and anti government beliefs. Proper admitted to
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  Speaker 2: investigators that members initially connected through a TikTok group called
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  Speaker 2: Vanguard of the Old before moving their conversations to the
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  Speaker 2: encrypted app signal. The group believed that the US was
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  Speaker 2: headed in the wrong direction and needed to be torn
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  Speaker 2: down so it could be rebuilt. Proper allegedly admitted to
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  Speaker 2: helping plan the attack, stating that members intended to meet
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  Speaker 2: in Fredericksburg, Virginia, before traveling to Washington. According to the complaint,
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  Speaker 2: the group planned to stage a distraction demonstration on the
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  Speaker 2: north side of the White House while drones carrying explosive
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  Speaker 2: devices detonated over the event venue. The explosions were intended
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  Speaker 2: to force attendees in high value targets to flee south,
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  Speaker 2: where armed members of the group planned to open fire.
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  Speaker 2: Proper stated this attack was designed to jumpstart a revolution.
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  Speaker 2: Signal chats containing nineteen participants revealed discussions of sniper positions,
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  Speaker 2: drone launch locations, escape routes, a potential safe house, and
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  Speaker 2: targets within Congress. While the complaint describes a plan involving
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  Speaker 2: explosive drones, it does not allege that investigators actually were
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  Speaker 2: covered explosives. The Associated Press reports that a multi state
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  Speaker 2: operation has resulted in five arrests across Ohio, Missouri, and California.
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  Speaker 2: FBI Director Cash Bettels stated on x that the planned
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  Speaker 2: attacks were stopped cold and Proper is scheduled for a
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  Speaker 2: detention hearing Wednesday. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: Next we turn to Jersey City, New Jersey, where a
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  Speaker 2: juvenile is under arrest following a horrifying acid attack outside
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  Speaker 2: a home on Wilkinson Avenue near Ocean Avenue on Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: The Jersey City Police Department reports six victims in total,
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  Speaker 2: including three teenagers. A twenty one year old woman was
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  Speaker 2: hospitalized with second degree burns to her face and scalp
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  Speaker 2: after a car pulled up to the group and someone
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  Speaker 2: through what is believed to be sulfuric asset before fleeing
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  Speaker 2: the scene. Witness Amelia Sanchez heard the immediate confrontation from
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  Speaker 2: her home and spoke to ABC seven's Eyewitness News.
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  Speaker 1: Follow each other names and fightings. I heard one of
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  Speaker 1: the girls screaming, zan it burns.
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  Speaker 2: Sanchez, who is bed britten and spoke through her window,
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  Speaker 2: expressed her utter shock over the horrific violence occurring right
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  Speaker 2: on her block.
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  Speaker 1: I'm quite crazy because I couldn't see nothing, and this
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  Speaker 1: is happening on my plaque, imagining my grandkids was sittin
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  Speaker 1: on you.
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  Speaker 2: According to witnesses, the injured victims desperately held towels to
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  Speaker 2: their faces as they were loaded into ambulances. A statement
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  Speaker 2: from the mayor indicates the targeted attack appeared to stem
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  Speaker 2: from an earlier dispute between a large group of people
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  Speaker 2: as first responders washed down contaminated surfaces. Neighbors lamented the
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  Speaker 2: sudden violence, noting that people seem to be increasingly out
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  Speaker 2: for revenge. Finally, Boston police have arrested a fourteen year
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  Speaker 2: old boy in connection with the armed robbery of a
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  Speaker 2: children's lemonade stand on West ninth Street. According to Boston Police,
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  Speaker 2: the juvenile faces arraignment in juvenile court on two counts
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  Speaker 2: of armed robbery and two counts of unlawful possession of
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  Speaker 2: a firearm. The robbery occurred Wednesday afternoon, where an eleven
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  Speaker 2: year old girl and her twelve year old brother were
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  Speaker 2: running their neighborhood stand. Two young men approached, asked if
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  Speaker 2: the stand accepted Apple Pay, and then forcefully grabbed their
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  Speaker 2: cash box. The children's father, Dave Byrne, recounted the terrifying
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  Speaker 2: encounter to Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: They seen my eleven year old daughter and twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old son, and they basically went up to them. They
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  Speaker 1: seen their little lock box that had the money in it,
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  Speaker 1: and they said we're going to take this. And as
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  Speaker 1: they said that, they were also flashed in the gun
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  Speaker 1: that they had at the waistband.
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  Speaker 2: Police date one suspect flashed a black firearm in his
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  Speaker 2: waistband before both fled with the cash box, which was
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  Speaker 2: later recovered empty. Investigators have released surveillance images and are
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  Speaker 2: asking anyone with information on the second suspect to contact
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  Speaker 2: detectives at six one seven three four three forty seven
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  Speaker 2: forty two. Dave Byrne told Fox News that the incident
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  Speaker 2: has deeply traumatized his children.
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  Speaker 1: They're definitely shaken up. It's just kids being kids, right.
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  Speaker 1: They have an lemonade stand on the corner. You really
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  Speaker 1: don't expect anything like that ever to happen, so something
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  Speaker 1: like this was definitely very, uh traumatizing for them.
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  Speaker 2: On Friday evening, the sibling courageously reopen their lemonade stand
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  Speaker 2: with the overwhelming support from neighbors and Mayor Michelle wou
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  Speaker 2: Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn announced that half the money
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  Speaker 2: raised during the reopening will be donated to a local
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  Speaker 2: organization focused on preventing gun violence. For the latest crime
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  Speaker 2: and justice breaking news, be sure to tune in tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Sidney Silvani