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All right, everyone, welcome back to Crime Wire Weekly. A
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little look at the topics we're going to be covering today,
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and the top news story all over the country today
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is the FBI thwarting a planned attack at UFC Freedom
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to fifty. Pretty Much everyone in the country and around
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the world watch this event. Thank god, nothing happened. It
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was in the back of my mind that something possibly
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could happen, But the FBI did what they do and.
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There's no doubt they saved lives on that one. There's
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absolutely no doubt.
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Tons of lives. We're going to talk about it. In Texas,
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a Midland Texas mass shooting is dominating the news. One dead,
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ten injured. We're going to tell you about that. In
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South Carolina, a Planet Fitness trainer missing since I believe
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it was last Friday after leaving work in South Carolina's
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Planet Fitness. There's some weird circumstances we're going to be
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talking about today on that. And Georgia, a federal judge
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has apologized after sex in her chambers is exposed several times.
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She ought to know better.
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I'm sure she did. And Wisconsin, Lustful law Breakers is
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coming your way and we're going to tell you all
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about the Pinti Burgler Foolish Felons is also coming your
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way today. Six have been arrested in a bizarre abduction
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at a Florida Margueriteville resort.
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Okay, if there's anywhere that abduction should not happen, it's
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at Margaritaville. We should be relaxing. We should be relaxing there.
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Yeah, well it happened in this case. And some foolish
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felons that Kelly's going to be telling you about the
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next have won a title for the first time in
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fifty three years, and that win sparked some unexpected fan backlash.
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So we're going to convey in contrast around the country
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how people celebrate when you win. You're not gonna believe
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this story. If I had this segment actually all the time,
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I would call it perfect timing pu r rfect because
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an Amazon driver, that'd be a great sound effect for that.
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An Amazon driver finds a missing cat while delivering his
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missing cat. Mind you, while delivering a package? How about
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brain freeze behind bars? And the Alabama ice cream shop
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owner and her husband are arrested after taking a negative
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review way too far.
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Look, I need to insert dad slash mom joke here
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because that's not cool.
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Yeah, cool, I do get it now. This one, I
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don't know if y'all seen the video. This is like
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a fourteen minute video that the guy videoed as this
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woman was confronting him, and it is the most backwoods
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thing you had ever seen in your life. That's the
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only way.
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That's coming from South Louisiana.
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Yeah, we're going to talk about it international indiscretions today.
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We're going to the UK, where social media has been
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banned for anyone sixteen and under. We're going to talk
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about it, debate it, see if it's a good idea,
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bad idea, whatever. And of course we'll have overtime today.
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So a lot of stories come in your way.
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Yeah, a lot of big ones too that I don't know.
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Sometimes it feels like just I know we're going to
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jump into the to the UFC fight. But sometimes it
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feels like anytime we have a big event that you
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kind of sit on the on your the heels, you know,
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watching it, thinking, God, I hope nothing happens. And I
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think that's sad. I felt that way.
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Yeah it is. It is sad, but it's you know,
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if people are going to do something horrendous like that.
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They want to do it in as big as spotlight
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as possible, and and so we're going to jump into
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that first story. The FBI disrupted what Director Cash Patel
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called planned attacks targeting high profile UFC cage fighting event
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on the south lawn of the White House this past
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week and multiple individuals are now in custody after a
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multi state operation. Now, the director said or announced this
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Tuesday morning, and he stated agents and partners learned of
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the potential threat on June tenth, which was four days
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before the June fourteenth UFC Freedom two fifty event that
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took place in DC. On June tenth, FBI and our
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law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to
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UFC America two fifty event. And I don't know why
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he called it in America too. That's not what it's called.
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It's UFC Freedom too fifty event, Cash Battel. This was
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in Washington, involving individuals outside of the National Capital region.
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And thanks to the rapid app action of this FBI
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our partners in the Department of Justice, multiple individuals are
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now in custody and the planned attacks were stopped cold
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We are built to detect, respond to, and bring justice
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to those who threaten the lives of American citizens, particularly
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during large gatherings like the UFC two fifty fight. That's
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exactly what we did here now. Law enforcement said. The
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plot involved explosive laden drones intended to spot to strike
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nearby buildings and create panic, potentially hurting the crowds toward
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a sniper team. A second wave of attackers was reportedly
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planned to storm the White House gate. Five people had
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been arrested in connection with the investigation. The UFC event
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drew more than two hundred and twenty thousand spectators, including
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approximately twelve hundred service menders who were invited to sit
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right next to the cage as part of celebrations marking
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the two hundred and fifteenth anniversary of the of the
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Declaration of Independence and Flag Day. It also coincided with
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President Trump's eightieth birthday. The fight proceeded without incident and
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no one was harmed. So the ringleader, if you will,
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who planned this attack was a Central Ohio man. His
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name was Tyson Proper. He is nineteen years old. And
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here's what I was able to discover regarding his involvement Now.
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According to the federal complaint, the nineteen year old was
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arrested in charge with conspiracy to commit an offense against
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the United States, attempted murder of an employee of the
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United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a
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crime or violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm
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to commit a felony. On June tenth and nine, eighteen PM,
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officers with the Knox County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to
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an address in reference to a disturbance. The caller was
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actually Proper's mother, who was concerned that due to his
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recent cost and what she noted was firearm purchases and
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communicating with certain individuals online. He lives with his parents,
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and Proper have recently met several people online and these
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were random people and have been planning recons is what
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he called it, with these individuals. Now. In an interview
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with Proper, he admitted to planning with others a coordinated
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attack against the United States. During that event, and according
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to Proper, some members of the group who would participate
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in the attack began communicating with one another in or
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around March of twenty twenty six via tik Tok group
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called quote Vanguard of the Old. The members of the
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group stated they wanted to protect the United States, which
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they believe was headed in the wrong directions. Member of
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the members of the group believed the United States needed
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to be torn down so that it can be rebuilt.
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Some expressed a desire that people who were involved with
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jeopary Epstein should not govern the country. Members shared information
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with each other on a TikTok on the TikTok group
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to show their trustworthiness and commitment to the costs, such
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as id documents and videos of their abilities and workouts.
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The group was broken into three tiers. Tier one having
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to meet physical fitness standards and acquire equipment such as
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body armor and firearms. Proper admitted to being one of
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those team leaders and if you've seen his lineup photos,
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he doesn't look very physically fit to me both whatever.
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Proper described the general plan the general plan for the attack,
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saying all members would leave their homes on Friday or Saturday,
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that's June twelfth or thirteenth to meet up in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
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Proper himself was planning to drive taking his weapons and
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body armor, including an AR fifteen, all his ammunition, tactical
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us and ballistic plates. He planned to take extra body
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armor for other members of the group. According to Proper,
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the plan as he knew it was to stage a
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demonstration on the north side of the White House. While
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the demonstration was taking place, the group would fly small
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unmanned drones laden with unspecified explosive devices which would detonate
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over the north side of the UFC area. When the
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unmanned aircraft detonated, the intent was to force the crowd
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attending the event and high value targets to evacuate to
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the south. Proper states the plan was for members of
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the group to act as snipers and additional shooters, preferably
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with long guns, staged at or near the southern evacuation point,
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to conduct shootings of the members of the crowd and
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high value targets as they fled from the explosive devices
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which have been detonated. The high value targets included both
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wealthy people and politic titians. According to Proper, this attack
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was designed to jumpstart a revolution in the United States.
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Now kJ as you know, almost immediately after these types
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of arrest or made search warrants are sought for phones, etc.
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Of those that are arrested and that took place here.
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Officers got his iPhone and observed chats of signal groups
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that laid out detailed plans to conduct an attack in Washington,
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d C. With several unidentified confederates quote unquote. In the chat,
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detailed imagery of the national Capital region and maps of
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the area were shared to the group of which Proper
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was a member, highlighting sniper locations, potential launch locations, and
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other tactical planning. Now, law enforcement interviewed Proper's father, and
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his father said his son had been planning to leave
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this upcoming weekend, which was the thirteenth, to meet up
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with those people. The father said the son had acquired
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camping gear, ballistic plates, a shotgun, a rifle, and lots
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of ammunition, extra magazine, and play carriers. He's currently in
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the Franklin County jail and has a detention hearing set
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for tomorrow. From this recording, his father said his son
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spent about three thousand dollars of his graduation money to
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purchase the items, and the father said his son quit
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his job recently in preparation to meet the individuals that
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he had been interacting with online. Knox County investigators, of course,
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would take photos of all of this, and there are
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like thousands of rounds of ammunition that you can see online,
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just pictures of all these rifles, etc. Now law enforcement
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when they interviewed Propper's mother, she said that he had
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been interacting with a group online that was comprised of
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individuals who claim to be ex military and Christian based.
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She didn't know the name of the group, but they
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expressed anti government sentiments, specifically grievances about corruption, the handling
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of the Epstein files, data centers, taking up all the
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water in communities, and other government actions. The mother also
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set her so recently engaged in physical training, which she
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initially thought was to further his aspirations to join the
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military or police, but later learned it was related to
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this online group. She observed her son researching and mapping
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locations in the area just northwest of Washington, and saw
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images and maps being sent from her son to unknown
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people through text and discord chats in the Signal app,
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primarily a large chat consisting of nineteen people, then smaller
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chats consisting of about four or five people. The smaller
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group chats were based on role assignments and locations, such
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as shooters at one location, chats about exit, playing, escapes,
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evasion resources for the attack, and even included a possible
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safe house. Some planes indicated that members of the group
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would travel from the area to the White House on
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the Potomac River and travel along the river to escape
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the area. Then, after this was all announced, two Southern
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California men were arrested, Brian Roa, who is twenty four,
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and Michael Thomas, who was thirty two. They were arrested
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on Saturday, which is the day prior to the actual event.
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The FBI searched both of the homes and recover multiple
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firearms and large quantities of ammunition, basically the same thing
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they were covered from the first suspect, and the complaint
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said Thomas was planning the attack but wasn't going to
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take part. The FBI has now said the alleged terror
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plot involved at least nineteen people. No information is of
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this recording regarding the other two people arrested, but so
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far five have been caught of those nineteen.
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Yeah, all right, so let's you know, I've almost taken
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a whole page of notes here. While you were talking
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because you know, you were able to update some more
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stuff since the news broke. But first of all, this
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whole entire thing is giving Columbine, okay, the starter revolution,
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the we need to you know, tear down and rebuild
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and all of that. And the reason I say it's
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given Columbine is because though even those shooters had this
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same kind of thought process, this grandiose ideology of themselves,
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that they could even pull something like this off. And
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the the first of all, kudos to the mother in this,
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that because as heartbreaking as this must have been for her,
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she knew in her gut that her child was going
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to do something or potentially do something that was unhinged.
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is is massive. But kind of like when you were
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reading and I kind of started laughing, it's because I
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actually took a note that said, I wonder where they met.
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It must have been Discord, And I wrote that because
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Discord is no I mean, there's a lot of things
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that go on there, but it's known to be an
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echo chamber of people that get in these ideas that