{"id":2894,"date":"2026-06-16T23:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:33:43","slug":"authorities-say-theyve-disrupted-planned-drone-gun-attack-on-white-house-ufc-cage-fighting-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2894","title":{"rendered":"Authorities say they\u2019ve disrupted planned drone, gun attack on White House UFC cage-fighting show"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON \u2014 Law enforcement officials disrupted a planned attack targeting President Donald Trump\u2019s UFC cage-fighting show at the White House this past weekend, according to court papers unsealed Tuesday that say plotters who harbored fringe conspiracy theories spoke of flying explosives-laden drones and shooting panicked crowd members as they fled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2892\">Senate fails to advance war powers resolution to halt US action against Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Investigators recovered high-powered firearms from several of the suspects and reviewed encrypted text messages between roughly 20 participants who shared detailed maps and aerial photographs of the area and discussed the need for a \u201csafe house\u201d and escape routes after the intended attack, the documents show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it\u2019s unclear from the court records how close the would-be attackers could have come to being able to carry out the plan had it not been thwarted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Several suspects or co-conspirators who were questioned by the authorities said they did not intend themselves to carry out violence but planned to instead observe others. One said he would have traveled to the UFC event as a protester but had to return home after his vehicle malfunctioned. And though the participants spoke of using drones rigged with explosives, charging documents suggest they were still looking to acquire such equipment when the plot was interrupted.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cIt didn\u2019t even get close to the point of execution,\u201d Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday evening on Fox News Channel, describing the planning as \u201cnot that advanced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey weren\u2019t in town. They had not really done that much planning,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Law enforcement officials learned about the possible threat on June 10, four days before the mixed martial arts extravaganza on the White House\u2019s South Lawn, \u201cand thanks to the rapid action of the FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold,\u201d Director Kash Patel said in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Five people from states including Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, and California were arrested on federal charges, the Justice Department said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Asked about the arrests Tuesday, Vance said there was \u201cmore violent rhetoric coming from the left than the right these days.\u201d But the charging documents paint a more muddled view of their views, depicting them as espousing a tangled web of anti-government sentiment, antisemitic grievances, fury over the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and conspiracy theories about a powerful elite that sacrifices and consumes children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both Trump and Vance said they had not been briefed in advance of the plot. A top Secret Service official suggested Tuesday the investigation was continuing and an announcement might have been premature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnyone that believes that case was worked in a bubble is naive,\u201d Deputy Secret Service Director Matthew Quinn told reporters at an unrelated news conference. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you the Secret Service led that investigation from the beginning. I\u2019ll tell you that it\u2019s ongoing. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and the security plan, we chose not to leak it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among those arrested was Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old Ohio man whose mother contacted law enforcement last week with concerns about his firearms purchases and online communications, according to an FBI affidavit filed in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Proper told officials he participated in the planning of an attack, according to the affidavit, which says some members of the group began communicating with each other last March through a TikTok group called \u201cVanguard of the Old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe members of the group stated that they wanted to protect the United States, which they believed was headed in the wrong direction,\u201d the affidavit says. \u201cMembers of the group believed that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt. Some expressed a desire that people who were involved with Jeffrey Epstein should not govern the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2890\">RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Trump, who celebrated his 80th birthday at the UFC event on Sunday, was friends with Epstein many years ago but has said he ended their relationship before the disgraced financier\u2019s crimes became known. Epstein killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A lawyer for Proper, who is charged with firearms offenses and crimes including attempted murder of an officer or employee of the United States, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The logistics were discussed via Signal, an app that uses end-to-end encryption for its messaging and calling services, through a primary chat of \u201capproximately 19 individuals\u201d and smaller side chats, authorities said. Messages obtained from Proper\u2019s phone show he identified by name several Republican lawmakers he said should be targeted because they apparently received donations from causes supportive of Israel, the affidavit said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Proper told law enforcement officials that he had been planning to drive with weapons and body armor to a meet-up spot in Fredericksburg, Va., court papers say. He said though he did not intend to shoot people at the White House, others in the group did, the affidavit said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The plan called for the use of drones that would be detonated over the north side of the White House, prompting an evacuation into the line of fire of waiting snipers in an attack Proper said was designed to \u201cjumpstart\u201d a revolution, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Investigators who examined Proper\u2019s phone and TikTok account identified additional suspects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of Pinon Hills, Calif., told officials he viewed himself as \u201cthe planner and advisor for the group, and while he was not willing to take action himself, wanted to guide and instruct others on how to carry out attacks\u201d designed to overthrow the government, an FBI agent said in an affidavit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The agent said Thomas believed the US government was \u201crun by an elite group of individuals who sacrifice and consume infants who also were deeply involved\u201d with Epstein and are now protected by Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Another suspect, Bryan Omar Roa, also of California, told the FBI he had planned to attend the event as a \u201cprotester\u201d but he had to return home because his car was broken, an agent said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was not immediately clear who their lawyers were.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Two other suspects were identified as Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Mo., who officials say said in a group chat that a target of the attack should be \u201cbig and someone a majority of the country knows,\u201d and Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, an Omaha, Neb., man who the FBI said posted detailed plans with the co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A lawyer for Alvarez declined to comment and a lawyer for Eskridge did not immediately return a message seeking comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2888\">Republican divides and strange alliances emerge ahead of Georgia runoff<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court papers say law enforcement officials disrupted a planned attack targeting the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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