FBI Director Kash Patel, speaks during a press conference related to arrests of NBA players and coaches for illegal gambling schemes, at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, October 23, 2025.
Eduardo Munoz | Reuters
FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday morning that the FBI had arrested multiple people in Michigan, thwarting “a potential terrorist attack … over Halloween weekend.”
Patel, in a social media post, said that other details about the arrests were forthcoming.
“This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend,” Patel wrote on X.
“More details to come. Thanks to the men and women of FBI and law enforcement everywhere standing guard 24/7 and crushing our mission to defend the homeland,” Patel wrote.
NBC News, citing four senior law enforcement officials, reported that the FBI in Detroit took into custody “a small group of young individuals … who were plotting some form of attack with a possible reference to Halloween.”
The officials said the group “has a nexus to some form of foreign extremism.”
The Police Department in Dearborn, Michigan, in a post on Facebook, it had been “made aware that the FBI conducted operations in the City of Dearborn earlier this morning.”
“We want to assure our residents that there is no threat to the community at this time,” the department said.
This is developing news. Check back for updates.
