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Ohio Sheriff Warns Terror Attack Imminent by People Already Within US, Troopers Ordered to Carry AR-15s
“There are people already here who have come to this country who hate us and want to kill us,” the sheriff warned.
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“It’s not if they are going to attack, it’s just when they are.”
That’s what Ohio’s Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said after attending the National Sheriffs’ Association Conference in Washington, D.C, held Feb. 3-6, according to the Journal-News. At the conference, FBI officials warned sheriffs from across the country about imminent terrorist attacks on the U.S.
“There are people already here who have come to this country who hate us and want to kill us,” Jones warned. He’s on a mission to make sure his department is prepared.
Butler County sheriff ramps up training, security after FBI warning of terror attacks
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones says he is worried about the threat of terror attacks and wants deputies and residents to be prepared.
Lines of attack, he said he was told, will be through cyber attacks, crippling power grids, train derailments and cells of armed terrorists who target multiple areas of the country. Cyber attacks already have happened, including one that affected the BCSO in 2020 when the dispatch center was crippled. The sheriff’s office is “getting five cyber hack attempts a day by the Chinese, three times a day by the Iranians, and we got hacked two years ago by the Russians,” Jones said. “And that is not just us. I assume they are doing that all over the country.” Jones said the Chinese have the U.S. outnumbered 50 to 1 in people working on cyber attacks and prevention.
“Their deal is to cause us disruption in our county. To cause chaos in our country, not like next week — now. From the red flags and chatter that they (FBI) are hearing,” he said. Jones said the FBI also said people have come across the border to “do harm to us … that they have never seen it this bad.” Thousands of people are working to disrupt the country, including national and local elections, he said. “They told us we need to be prepared to talk to local county election people to be prepared,” Jones said. “They want us to lose faith in our government.”
He said big cities will not just be the target, terrorists also will hit in smaller cities and rural areas where people typically feel safe.
“The terrorists are here, we have already been told that, from 160 countries that want to do us harm,” Jones said. “We have been told by the FBI that they are here and it is just a matter of time before they attack.”
