Suspected suburban jihadists shared ISIS-style selfies and joked about FBI reading group chat: feds

FIRST ON FOX: A hulking New Jersey 19-year-old accused of plotting to articulation the remnants of the Islamic State radical successful the aftermath of a thwarted panic onslaught connected cheery bars successful Michigan posed successful beforehand of an ISIS emblem and different alleged conspirator posed successful jihadi fatigues successful photos intercepted by national agents from a radical chat wherever the alleged plotters joked astir being monitored by the FBI.

Both were already connected the FBI's radar.

Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel, 19, of Montclair, allegedly volunteered to behaviour ISIS-style on-camera beheadings successful a video telephone with suspected co-conspirators and hoped to person a Wikipedia leafage and documentary dedicated to his misdeeds. He had been interviewed by the FBI successful 2024 aft allegedly predicting a "newsworthy" panic onslaught would instrumentality spot successful Boston. 

Separately, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba identified the sixth fishy arsenic Saed Ali Mirreh, a 19-year-old from Kent, Washington, who is accused of conspiracy to enactment a designated overseas violent organization. Mirreh was already connected the FBI's radar aft investigations successful 2023 and 2024 for alleged ties to a juvenile panic fishy successful Canada and discussing different ISIS attacks, a national transgression ailment revealed.

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Federal investigators intercepted this photograph that they allege shows Tomas Jimenez-Guzel holding a weapon successful beforehand of an ISIS flag. The upright scale digit is besides alleged to beryllium an ISIS manus gesture. Jimenez-Guzel allegedly blurred his ain look earlier transmitting the image. (Justice Department)

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Mirreh's apprehension successful an X station Thursday, and praised the teamwork executed by the Justice Department.

"Update connected the alleged foiled violent onslaught retired of Michigan past week - earlier this week the FBI and partners arrested a 6th taxable successful transportation to the case, this clip retired of Washington state. This was different idiosyncratic allegedly providing worldly support, inspired by ISIS," Patel wrote. "Partners proceed to bash an outstanding occupation - @AGPamBondi @DAGToddBlanche @USAttyHabba and galore much - their decisive enactment has undoubtedly saved galore lives. We volition support you updated arsenic we’re able."

Mirreh was the alleged "finance guy" accused of raising thousands of dollars to money question to Syria with the assistance of an online scammer identified lone arsenic "Bob," whom tribunal documents placed successful Sweden.

"The menace of coercion is real," Habba said successful a video posted to X Wednesday, linking the suspects to 3 suspected Halloween onslaught plotters successful suburban Detroit, who were arrested with a stockpile of costly firearms and ammunition connected Friday. 

She added that the 2 men allegedly planned to question from Turkey to Syria and combat for ISIS.

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Federal investigators intercepted this photograph that they allege shows Tomas Jimenez-Guzel wearing a keffiyeh connected his caput and holding a handgun. He allegedly blurred his ain look earlier sending the image. (Justice Department)

Authorities arrested Mirreh astatine his Washington location conscionable hours earlier helium was scheduled to alert from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Istanbul, Turkey, according to a national transgression complaint. Jimenez-Guzel was taken into custody astatine Newark Liberty International Airport aft moving up his formation from Nov. 17 to Nov. 5.

Federal authorities besides arrested Montclair nonmigratory Milo Sedarat, the 21-year-old lad of an Iranian expat writer who teaches assemblage English successful New York City. Agents successful tactical cogwheel and armored vehicles were seen extracurricular his father's location connected Tuesday.

The suspects appeared to beryllium alert that their encrypted conversations mightiness beryllium monitored by the FBI, joking astir it successful substance exchanges and sending selfies with their ain faces blurred, tribunal documents allege.

"Everyone has to beryllium prepared to 'unalive' someone," Mirreh is alleged to person said astatine 1 point, utilizing a stand-in operation that societal media users commonly insert alternatively of the connection "kill" to get astir contented filters. 

Federal investigators intercepted this photograph that they allege shows Saed Mirreh successful ISIS-style garb. He allegedly blurred his ain look earlier sending the image. (Justice Department)

In 1 exchange, Jimenez-Guzel allegedly projected coming up with a fake crippled to mislead authorities. In another, aft the arrests of a radical of suspected co-conspirators from Dearborn, Michigan, helium allegedly told the radical successful a league call, "There’s a batch of urgent worldly we request to talk about."

"Five of america are successful the nonfiction and the feds… they’re gonna beryllium looking for america soon," helium allegedly said. "If we don’t leave, we are cooked."

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Jimenez-Guzel's parent is Meral Guzel, caput of the U.N.'s Women's Entrepreneurship Accelerator, a programme nether the agency’s umbrella focused connected women’s rights, according to the New York Post, which dubbed the 2 suspects "alleged yuppie jihadis."

Guzel's LinkedIn illustration touts her enactment connected "gender equality," "inclusive growth" and "competitive proviso chains."

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Milo Sedarat gifting a brace of sneakers to a person successful a photograph posted to Facebook. (Facebook/Janette Afsharian)

Jimenez-Guzel is charged with 1 number of conspiracy to supply worldly enactment to a overseas violent enactment and 1 number of attempting to supply worldly enactment to a overseas violent organization. He faces a maximum condemnation of 20 years successful situation arsenic good arsenic different $250,000 good if convicted.

Sedarat is charged with 2 counts of transmitting a menace successful interstate oregon overseas commerce, which carries a maximum condemnation of 5 years successful situation and a $250,000 good if convicted.

Neither of them entered pleas astatine their archetypal appearances Wednesday afternoon.

Roger Sedarat walks extracurricular of his location successful Montclair, New Jersey, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Sedarat's son, 21-year-old Milo Sedarat, was arrested connected Tuesday arsenic a suspected accomplice successful the thwarted crippled to sprout up LGBT bars successful suburban Detroit connected Halloween. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Sedarat's father, Roger Sedarat, sat softly successful the backmost of the courtroom with a lawyer and different pistillate Wednesday arsenic his lad made his archetypal appearance. The elder Sedarat is an Iranian-American writer and English prof astatine Queens College, according to the school's website.

He did not respond to aggregate attempts to scope him for comment.

A divided representation shows inactive photos taken from surveillance video showing Mohmed Ali astatine a Michigan weapon range. (Eastern District of Michigan)

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Three further suspects, including 2 brothers, were arrested successful Dearborn, different Detroit-area community, and tribunal documents person besides pointed to 2 much juvenile suspects.

They person been identified arsenic Dearborn residents Majed Mahmoud, 20, Mohmed Ali, 20, and Ali's 19-year-old brother, Ayob Nasser.

They are accused of readying to enactment successful the U.S. to transportation retired the foiled Halloween plot.

Ayob Nasser, successful black, is the 5th antheral to beryllium charged successful transportation with an alleged Halloween panic crippled successful Michigan. His older brother, Mohmed Ali, was charged Monday alongside chap Dearborn 20-year-old Majed Mahmoud. Separately, 2 much young men were arrested successful New Jersey. (Eastern District of Michigan)

Jimenez-Guzel, the Washington antheral and different alleged co-conspirators are accused of plotting to question to Turkey, past Syria to articulation ISIS arsenic fighters, Habba said.

Federal investigators intercepted radical chat discussions successful which the suspects allegedly codenamed the Halloween crippled "pumpkin" and discussed traveling overseas to articulation ISIS, a panic radical known for brutal executions, wide casualty panic attacks successful the West and concisely occupying ample swaths of Iraq and Syria.

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The crippled remains nether investigation, and much arrests are possible.

Fox News' Maria Paronich contributed to this report.