{"id":70067,"date":"2025-11-29T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70067\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T23:30:10","slug":"afghan-national-arrested-over-alleged-bomb-threat-in-texas-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/70067\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan national arrested over alleged bomb threat in Texas: DHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homeland Security said investigators arrested an Afghan national who allegedly made a social media post about “building a bomb” and threatened to blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay’s arrest took place on Tuesday, Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary with DHS, said in a social media post Saturday.<\/p>\n

Alokozay was arrested on state terror charges and is being held at a corrections center in Tarrant County, Texas, according to court records.<\/p>\n

His arrest came just a day before two National Guard members were allegedly shot <\/a>by another Afghan national — 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal– in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

One of the Guard members, U.S. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom<\/a>, later died from her injuries. Lakanwal is now facing a first-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n

DC National Guard shooting suspect to be charged with first-degree murder, Pirro says<\/a><\/p>\n

McLaughlin alleged in an X post that Alokozay “posted a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area.”<\/p>\n

\"Tarrant<\/p>\n

Tarrant County Corrections Center – PHOTO: Mohammad Alokozay is shown in this Nov. 25 2025, booking photo.<\/p>\n

“He was arrested on Tuesday by the Texas Department of Public Safety and FBI JTTF and charged with making Terroristic Threats,” she added.<\/p>\n

Attorney information for Alokozay was not immediately available.<\/p>\n

McLaughlin said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a retainer for Alokozay.<\/p>\n

-ABC News’ Jenna Harrison contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homeland Security said investigators arrested an Afghan national who allegedly made a social media post about “building a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35555,35556,116,2946,35554,35495,3312,702,122,27,29,28,35553],"class_list":["post-70067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-afghan","tag-corrections-center","tag-fort-worth","tag-homeland-security","tag-mohammad-alokozay","tag-mohammad-dawood-alokozay","tag-national-guard-members","tag-social-media","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tricia-mclaughlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}