Mysterious calls placed from NYC terror suspect family's home hours after alleged ISIS-inspired attack

Two Pennsylvania men accused of an ISIS-inspired NYC terror plot lived 10 miles apart but came from vastly different backgrounds before their arrests.


Mysterious calls placed from NYC terror suspect family's home hours after alleged ISIS-inspired attack
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FIRST ON FOX: BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. - Dispatch logs obtained by Fox News Digital show that three calls to law enforcement were made from the home of one of the New York City terror suspects in suburban Philadelphia after the foiled attack.

The first call to law enforcement came in at 4:15 p.m. Saturday from Ibrahim Kayumi's family home, the logs showed. The second came in at 9:19 p.m. A third call to law enforcement was placed on Sunday at 8:54 p.m. The calls were made to 911 or non-emergency lines, according to the log. It's unclear what was said on the calls or why they were made.

The calls surfaced as details emerged about the suspects' families. The two men lived just 10 miles apart but came from very different worlds, leaving neighboring communities stunned.

In a complaint, prosecutors said a series of pictures showed the two men handling the alleged bomb, which authorities later determined to have contained triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, and had nuts and bolts attached with duct tape.

According to The Associated Press, a license plate reader captured the two men entering New York City from New Jersey less than an hour before the foiled attack, which took place at around 12:15 p.m. Kayumi's mother said she last saw him at around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday when she filed a missing person report.

A LinkedIn belonging to Shaysta, Kayumi's mother, states she's a manager at Popeyes.

According to Zillow, the Kayumis' home in Newtown is worth over $2.2 million.

"Maybe he had killed himself," he said. "We didn't know what was going on. … If he's going to be five minutes late, he calls."

Balat's parents, who were born in Turkey, became naturalized U.S. citizens in 2017, according to the report.

"There was zero suspicious stuff going on at their house," she said. "Everybody was just in shock. Everyone. I could not believe it when I heard it. We thought it must be a mistake."

Balat's lawyer, Mehdi Essmidi, claimed to reporters that the two men didn't know each other prior to the attempted attack.

"They're strangers as far as I know," Essmidi said. "I'm saying they're from different parts of Pennsylvania. They're in different age groups. They are not known to each other. They do not live together. They do not have family or school ties."

Fox News Digital reached out to the families for comment.

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