FBI foils alleged mass shooting plot targeting Michigan synagogue

The FBI has arrested a 19-year-old from Pickford, Michigan, for allegedly making antisemitic threats on Instagram and planning violence against the Jewish community. Seann Pietila was charged with transmitting a communication containing a threat to injure another. Pietila had conversations with another Instagram user about committing a mass casualty or mass killing. Investigators found the name of an East Lansing synagogue, a date, and a list of weapons in the notes app of Pietila’s phone. His home was searched, and among the items found were ammunition, magazines, a shotgun, rifle, various knives, and a Nazi flag.