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A Group Planned To Use Snipers, Drones In Attack On White House UFC Event. Now They Face Life In Prison

The UFC Freedom 250 venue was allegedly the target of a terrorist plot.

Eight men have been indicted for allegedly plotting to carry out a terrorist attack at President Trump's Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event that was held on the White House South Lawn in June.

Initially, authorities had arrested five men in connection with the plot just days before the June 14 UFC event. Two more suspects were arrested the next week. An eighth person, Chandler D. Scaggs, 21, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, was added in this latest indictment.

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