Feds Foil Halloween Weekend Terror Plot, Kash Patel Confirms

Federal agents stopped what could have been a nightmare scenario just hours before Halloween festivities began across the country. FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that multiple suspects in Michigan were arrested in connection with a planned terror attack timed for Halloween weekend.

“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. He went on to thank law enforcement officials nationwide for working around the clock to defend the homeland.

The FBI’s Detroit office confirmed that agents carried out operations in the cities of Dearborn and Inkster on Tuesday morning. “There is no current threat to public safety,” FBI spokesman Jordan Hall said in a statement.

According to a senior official, Dearborn police were informed that federal agents would be conducting coordinated raids on three homes. However, the same official said Michigan’s Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer was not briefed ahead of time.

“When Patel posted, nobody had been briefed,” the official told the New York Post. “So now everybody’s slowly getting the information.”

As of now, no further details about the suspects, their affiliations, or their intended target have been released. But the operation appears to have been significant enough that Patel, who rarely comments on ongoing investigations, issued a public statement in real time.

The arrests mark the latest in a growing list of preemptive actions under the Trump administration’s renewed national security focus.