FBI charge two in Ohio in connection with attack plots

TOLEDO, OHIO — Federal authorities said they’ve charged two people involved in planning separate large-scale attacks — one who wanted to carry out a shooting at a synagogue and another who had been plotting a bar shooting and blowing up a pipeline.

While the alleged attacks were in the planning stages, there was never an immediate threat to the public, the FBI and Department of Justice said Monday in a news conference announcing the charges.

Both suspects, who are from the Toledo area, had identified specific places they wanted to target, authorities said.

Damon Joseph, 21, allegedly spent months planning a violent attack on behalf of ISIS, targeting a synagogue in the Toledo area, Herdman said.

Authorities said Elizabeth Lecron, 23, bought bomb-making materials and was allegedly planning a mass killing at a Toledo bar and attacking her workplace.