Ten days after the hostage situation and standoff at a Colleyville synagogue, two more people believed to be involved in the incident have been arrested in England.
UK counterterrorism investigators have been helping US authorities look into the incident, which is being treated by the FBI as a hate crime and an act of terrorism.
Last week, two men were arrested in the English cities of Birmingham and Manchester, and were held for questioning, Greater Manchester Police said without elaborating.Akram arrived in the US in late December via New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Akram had been known to UK security services and had been the subject of a brief investigation in 2020, a UK official said. The investigation was closed when authorities determined Akram to no longer be a threat.The FBI believes Akram was motivated in part by a desire to see the release of convicted extremist Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year federal prison sentence in Fort Worth, they’ve said. Her attorney has said she was not involved in the Colleyville standoff.
The incident has put Jewish communities across the United States on edge. Attacks on Jewish people have been on the rise, the Anti-Defamation League warns.The CBS DFW team is a group of experienced journalists who along with our many CBS 11 reporters, bring you content on CBSDFW.com.