5 men were arrested today in a failed plot to blow up a Cleveland, Ohio bridge with C4 explosives. The men were arrested on suspicion of trying to buy what they thought were explosives.
The group on Monday planted what they thought were two remotely activated C-4-based explosive devices – which they allegedly bought from an undercover FBI employee – at the base of a Route 82 bridge that crosses from Brecksville to Sagamore Hills over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, the FBI said in a news conference Tuesday.
The devices actually were inoperable and posed no threat to the public, and the FBI arrested the men shortly after the devices were planted, authorities said.
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