Milo Sedarat, 19, son of award-winning Iranian-American poet and Queens College professor Roger Sedarat, was arrested on Wednesday at his father’s home in Montclair, N.J., in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot uncovered last week in Michigan.
Tomas Kaan Guzel, 19, also a resident of Montclair, was arrested on Tuesday in a food court at Newark Liberty International Airport. He was allegedly preparing to board a flight to Turkey en route to Syria to train with ISIS, the New York Post reported.
Both men are expected to appear in Newark federal court on Wednesday.
The arrests of Sedarat and Guzel follow the Oct. 31 arrests of two men in Detroit for what the FBI called “a potential act of terror.” Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmood were arraigned on Monday for federal charges of transferring firearms and ammunition for use in a terrorist act, CBS News reported.
A “newly unsealed complaint reveals a major ISIS-linked terror plot with multiple subjects arrested in the Eastern District of Michigan targeting the United States,” Pamela Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, stated on Monday.
“According to the complaint, subjects had multiple AR-15 rifles, tactical gear, and a detailed plan to carry out an attack on American soil,” she added.
Kash Patel, director of the FBI, wrote that the agency “stopped a massacre before it could happen.”
