A report from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio revealed that the 19-year-old Ohio man accused of plotting a terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House quietly spent his graduation money on an AR-15, a flag-painted shotgun, thousands of rounds of ammunition, plate carriers, tactical gear, trauma kits, blades, and a hatchet — and stashed it all at a relative’s house.
His mother noticed. She called the police. And that phone call unraveled one of the most chilling domestic terror plots in recent American history.
Tycen Proper of Knox County, Ohio, had poured $3,000 into building what authorities describe as a serious combat loadout: an AR-15 with a red dot sight and magnifier, a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun painted with an American flag, 13 loaded AR-15 magazines, more than 1,000 rounds of 5.56 ammunition, buckshot and rifled slugs, three plate carriers loaded with ballistic plates rated to stop .308 rounds, a tactical bump helmet, a battle belt with ammunition pouches, fixed and folding blades, a hatchet, two tactical headsets, chemical lights, a compass, and a full trauma medical kit stocked with tourniquets, wound seals, and emergency bandages.
Credit: Knox County Sheriff’s Office
He had also quit his job to focus on what he called “missions” and “recons” with people he’d met online.
His parents grew alarmed. His mother quietly stripped the weapons from his room and removed them from the property before calling authorities on the evening of June 10. “He just came inside,” she told the 911 dispatcher, “and he’s probably going to discover it’s not in his room.”
That call set off a four-day sprint by the FBI to dismantle a plot that, if executed, could have turned the White House lawn into a killing field.
The target was UFC Freedom 250, held on the White House grounds on June 14. The plan, which Proper allegedly confessed to in detail, called for explosive-laden drones to detonate over the arena, driving panicked crowds toward pre-positioned snipers waiting at evacuation points. A second wave would then strike the White House itself. The goal, Proper told investigators, was to “jumpstart” a revolution.
Proper wasn’t acting alone. Authorities believe at least 23 people were involved in the network, recruited through encrypted online channels where members spoke of tearing America down to rebuild it from scratch. Among the grievances animating the group: the government’s handling of the Epstein files, data centers consuming community water supplies, and what they saw as the corruption of elected officials by pro-Israel money.
That last fixation shaped their target list. Proper’s messages show him singling out Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) because, in his words, she’d “taken money from the pro-Israel lobby.” Images of four additional Republican lawmakers — pulled from a website tracking AIPAC donations — were circulated in the group’s planning chats.
His mother told the FBI she believed her son had been prey. The online group had used Christian and military imagery to draw him in, she said — she raised him in a devout home — and she believed they had exploited his faith to radicalize him.
Five suspects were arrested before the event. Two more were taken into custody afterward, including a man with drone-building experience and another accused of moving cash through the network on behalf of the plot’s alleged ringleader, an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau had four days between learning of the plot and the event itself.
They used every one of them.
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