Officials say suspects accused in terror plot at UFC planned sniper attacks on 'high-value targets'

The five suspects charged with plotting an attack during the UFC Freedom 250 event on Sunday were planning a "mass casualty event," according to court documents. 

Investigators say the group was motivated by a mix of extreme anti-government ideology, anti-Semitic beliefs and satanic conspiracy theories. 

Prosecutors allege that the suspects were planning to launch drones carrying explosives, which would detonate above the crowd. This would send attendees into a panic. When "high-value targets" fled to a southern evacuation point, sniper teams would ambush the fleeing officials and their security personnel, Fox News reported. 

According to investigators, these targets included President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither Musk nor Netanyahu were at the event. 

The group had also planned to steal military ordinance when they realized they lacked the expertise to manufacture explosives, according to investigators, and they designated safe houses to hide in following the attack. They were also discussing ways to break out of jail any of the operatives that were captured. 

Authorities have identified as suspects in the plot Tycen C. Proper, 19, of Ohio; Bryan Omar Roa, 24, of California; Michael Alan Thomas, 32, of California; Daniel K. Eskridge, 32, of Kidder, Missouri; and Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, 31, of Omaha, Nebraska.