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Filion was arrested in January in California on Florida state charges arising from a May 2023 threat he made to carry out a mass shooting at Masjid Al Hayy, a mosque in Sanford, Fla.

Alan Winston Filion has been arrested on suspicion of swatting Masjid Al Hayy mosque in Sanford, Fla. Authorities say he may be connected to other incidents.

In his call to authorities about the mosque, he claimed that he had an illegally modified AR-15, a Glock 17 pistol, pipe bombs and Molotov cocktails.

In 2011, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard Beech and Foster ran a pipe into the mosque from a nearby gas meter in a bid to spark an explosion.

Amjid Wazir, the chairman of City Central Mosque, said Beech did not seem to have learned any lessons after his previous crime.