OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Announcing the arrest of five suspects in the foiled plot to attack the White House UFC show on Sunday, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that an Omaha man taken into custody was the mastermind behind the whole conspiracy.
Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha was arrested Sunday in a raid on an old church in the small town of Western, Neb. According to federal court records filed Tuesday, Alvarez is not a U.S. citizen.
News of Alvarez’s arrest came after FBI Director Kash Patel announced on social media that law enforcement officials had disrupted “planned attacks” meant to target the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend, and that multiple people were in custody.
The DOJ update issued Tuesday afternoon said that five people had been arrested during the investigation — and said they believed Alvarez was the ringleader of the group behind a plot to orchestrate a mass-casualty event at the White House event. Others arrested include: Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio; Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of Calimesa, Calif.; Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, Calif.; and Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Mo…