Times Square plot

A 22-year-old man is in federal custody after he allegedly asked about buying grenades and discussed possibly detonating them in New York City's Times Square, according to law enforcement sources.
0:56 | 06/08/19

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I'm Christina curry got outside federal court in Brooklyn New York's ABC news lives. We're covering the arraignment for apps will allow its funny to look means the York. Coolest cars are inquiring to purchase grenades and using them in Times Square floor Washington DC to kill a senior government official. A lot was the subject of an undercover operation since August 2018. Where according to federal documents. He expressed the desire to purchase of firearms and explosives in the use for a terrorist attack. There was never a danger though because an FBI and the cover had been working with a lot of the entire time authorities settle Thomas believed to be alone wolf. Not a part of a larger operation. Alarmist permanently ordered by Brooklyn federal court magistrate judge Cheryl holly. So a federal detention center and it's expected back in court she's when he first I'm Christina Craig and Brooklyn new York and you're watching ABC news black eyes.

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