“Maybe some online chatter, maybe some online activity that may have been worrisome to federal law enforcement, but no plot coming out of these young men, these teenage boys out of Dearborn,” said Amir Makled, who says he represents one of those arrested.

FBI Director Kash Patel says federal officials have arrested multiple people in Michigan who had allegedly been plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend.

May Mokdad and her husband, Matt Abraham, both 50, have lived in the neighborhood for 20 years. When they heard why the FBI might be at the Middlepointe home — "scary" was Abraham's response, and "terrifying" was Mokdad's.