Alleged ‘ringleader’ of disrupted attack on White House UFC show arrested in Nebraska

Announcing the arrest of five suspects in the foiled plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House 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.

“From his home here in Nebraska, Alvarez allegedly directed and recruited others across the country to conduct a horrific attack against government officials in a mass casualty event. Our team worked around the clock to locate and apprehend Alvarez, take him into custody, and collect crucial evidence,” Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel of the FBI Omaha field office said in Tuesday release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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 Freedom 250 cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend, and that multiple people were in custody.

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