A teenager was arrested for allegedly plotting to carry out a violent terrorist attack against Christian churches in ...
a machete and, if he could get them, his father’s guns in the attack. Mercurio was arrested Saturday, the day before investigators believe he planned to attack people attending a church near his ...
Josh Noel/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Among the items the teenager allegedly discussed gathering in preparation for the attack were his father’s AR-15, “a machete ...
Investigators alleged Mercurio was about to attack at least one church in his area on April ... hand sanitizer, a machete and multiple firearms locked in his father's closet.
BOISE, Idaho — An 18-year-old man planned to attack churches in a northern Idaho city using a metal pipe, butane fuel, a machete and ... After attacking the church, Mercurio told the informant ...