Overview
- Agents say they intervened after identifying a student with immediate access to firearms.
- Firearms were removed from the student’s home and the student was expelled, according to an FBI spokesperson.
- The Justice Department filed no charges because the individual is a juvenile, and the investigation remains ongoing.
- Officials withheld the school’s identity, the exact location, and the timing of the alleged plot, and they did not detail why it was labeled ISIS-inspired.
- The disclosure accompanied year-end figures that showed arrests up 112% from 2024 with 317 violent-crime arrests and 163 weapons seized, as well as major fraud actions, while separate coverage highlighted a charged ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve plot in the Charlotte area.