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Federal authorities have arrested the brother of an alleged Michigan terror plotter and two young New Jersey men in connection with a thwarted plot to shoot up LGBT bars in suburban Detroit on Halloween.
The latest man charged is 19-year-old Ayob Nasser, according to the Justice Department. He is the brother of Mohmed Ali, 20, who was arrested Friday along with a friend named Majed Mahmoud, also 20.
In New Jersey, authorities arrested Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal, 19, and Milo Sedarat, 21, on Tuesday, and additional accomplices are still under investigation with more arrests possible, a law enforcement source told Fox News Digital earlier.
On Oct. 26, five days before the FBI alleges the plotters would have attempted an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Halloween, Nasser allegedly watched police bodycam video showing Nashville officers respond to a mass shooting at the Covenant School, which left three children and three adults dead before police killed the shooter, Audrey Hale.
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It was not immediately clear whether they were some of the unnamed co-conspirators described previously in court documents. They appeared in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, Wednesday afternoon.
The new arrests in New Jersey expand the suspect footprint of the alleged terror cell beyond the Dearborn, Michigan, community and across a much larger swath of the United States.
An amended complaint in the Detroit case added another 20 pages on top of Monday’s original filing.
It alleges that Nasser bought a Daniel Defense DDM4V7 5.56 NATO Rifle on Sept. 3 for $1,490.60, adding to the alleged arsenal of high-priced firearms the authorities say Ali and Mahmoud had been collecting.
It also introduces a second suspected juvenile plotter, identified only as “Person 2,” who allegedly searched for Anwar Awlaki, a dead al-Qaeda terrorist, the Christchurch mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, the phrase “Luigi Mangione shooting,” and for the autopsy of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, among other terror attacks and mass shootings.
And in addition to allegedly scouting a strip of LGBT bars in Ferndale, Michigan, as a potential target, Nasser and Person 2 also allegedly scouted an unnamed Midwestern theme park, according to the amended complaint.
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Separately, Sedarat made his first appearance at a federal court in Newark, New Jersey, Wednesday afternoon.
He did not enter a plea on two counts of transmitting a threat in interstate or foreign commerce, and the judge ordered him held without bail. He faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and $250,000 fine. His father, Iranian expat and Queens College English professor Roger Sedarat, watched from the back of the courtroom.
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The elder Sedarat did not respond to an attempt to reach him.
A spokesperson for Queens College told Fox News Digital it is a school policy to “reserve comment” on law enforcement investigations.
Jimenez-Guzal appeared later Wednesday. He is charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of attempt to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He is accused of providing resources and personnel, namely himself, to ISIS. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine if convicted. He did not enter a plea and waived formal reading of charges.
On Monday, federal prosecutors announced charges against Ali and Mahmoud, both 20 and both from Dearborn, Michigan, for their alleged roles in the plot, which involved multiple unnamed co-conspirators and a juvenile, according to court documents.
They are accused of stockpiling guns and ammunition, practicing shooting and scouting a strip of LGBT nightclubs in Ferndale as potential targets, according to a federal criminal complaint.
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They allegedly code named their plot “pumpkin” and planned to attack one or more nightclubs on Halloween, inspired in part by terror attacks at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016 and the Bataclan in Paris, France, a year earlier.
The FBI executed search warrants Friday on the homes of Ali and Mahmoud and a storage unit they shared, seizing multiple semiautomatic rifles, a shotgun, handguns, tactical gear and more than 1,600 rounds of 5.56 ammunition.
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Ali and Mahmoud are being held without bail until at least Monday, when they are due in federal court in Detroit for detention hearings.
Court dates for Jimenez-Guzal and Sederat were not immediately clear.
Fox News’ Eric Shawn contributed to this report.
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