Updated at 8:20 p.m. ET
Police in upstate New York have arrested three men and a 16-year-old youth on weapons and conspiracy charges. The four allegedly plotted a bomb attack against an Islamic community. At a news conference Tuesday, police chief Patrick Phelan from Greece, N.Y., a suburb outside Rochester, said the suspects assembled an arsenal including more than 20 firearms and three improvised explosive devices.
“There was a plan to attack this community with weapons,” Phelan said. “If they had carried out this plot — and there’s every indication is that they were going to — people would have died. I don’t know how many and who, but people would have died.”
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