8 indicted in planned sniper attack at White House UFC 250 event, DOJ says

Eight radical present look coercion charges related to a thwarted alleged crippled to termination authorities officials and high-profile figures — including President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk — astatine the UFC Freedom 250 lawsuit held astatine the White House past month.

All 8 were charged unneurotic Thursday arsenic portion of a two-count indictment handed down successful Ohio.

The indictment alleges they conspired to supply worldly enactment to terrorists, conspired to perpetrate execution connected national territory, and conspired to execution national authorities officials, the Justice Department said.

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The UFC Freedom 250 fights instrumentality spot connected the South Lawn of the White House connected June 15, 2026 successful Washington, D.C. Eight men has look coercion charges related to a thwarted crippled to onslaught astatine helium lawsuit and termination authorities officials, the Justice Department said Thursday. (Getty Images)

On June 10 — conscionable 4 days anterior to the lawsuit — instrumentality enforcement officials archetypal learned of the imaginable menace to the cage-fighting show. Seven of the suspects were arrested soon aft successful assorted locations crossed the country.

The eighth suspect, who was allegedly designated to enactment arsenic a sniper during the attack, was arrested this week by the FBI successful West Virginia.

The indictment stems from an archetypal probe and transgression ailment filed against Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio. The different defendants are Michael Alan Thomas, 32; Daniel K. Eskridge, 32; Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31; Jordan W. Rincker, 28; Bryan Omar Roa, 25; William Lee Spartacus Falkner, 21; and Chandler D. Scaggs, 21.

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President Donald J. Trump and UFC President Dana White ticker the UFC lightweight title combat during the UFC Freedom 250 lawsuit connected the South Lawn astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected June 14, 2026. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

The crippled allegedly began successful May erstwhile the defendants started amassing money, firearms, ammunition, assemblage armor, explosives, drones, aesculapian supplies and communications equipment.

Federal prosecutors said Scaggs was primitively expected to beryllium picked up by Proper to question to Washington, D.C.

However, adjacent aft Proper was arrested, Scaggs indicated to the radical that helium was inactive consenting to enactment successful the onslaught and made caller plans for different co-conspirator to prime him up.

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The suspects coordinated online done an encrypted Signal chat, Discord, and a TikTok radical called "Vanguard of the Old," authorities said.

The radical held fringe anti-government conspiracy theories and expressed a tendency to "tear down" the United States truthful it could beryllium rebuilt, prosecutors noted.