Cincinnati suspect arrested in UFC terror plot busted up by FBI

CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Five people are now in federal custody – including one person arrested in Cincinnati- after the FBI says it stopped an alleged terror plot targeting a UFC event at the White House, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Agents first picked up on the threat June 10 and quickly moved in to make the initial arrest in Cincinnati after securing probable cause, Patel said in a social media post Tuesday.

A multi-state operation across at least a dozen FBI field offices “stopped the attacks cold,” he wrote on X…

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