MONTCLAIR, N.J. — The son of noted Iranian American poet Roger Sedarat has been arrested in tony Montclair, New Jersey, in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terror plot uncovered in Michigan last week, law enforcement sources said.
Milo Sedarat was arrested at his father’s home in Montclair on Tuesday, sources told The Post.
Roger Sedarat is an award-winning Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City.
Along with Sedarat, the feds also nabbed another Montclair teen, Tomas Kaan Guzel, 19, sources said.
Police said they found numerous ISIS-inspired propaganda on Guzel’s phone, including a statement he made online about conducting a “Boston bombing-like attack.”
The NJ men were taken into custody following a joint investigation by the NYPD’s Intelligence Bureau and the FBI.
They are accused of involvement in the plot uncovered in Detroit last week, which feds say was meant to copy the 2015 Paris ISIS attack, sources said.
Guzel was arrested in a food court in Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport, where police said he was waiting for a flight to Turkey with the goal of reaching Syria and training with ISIS, sources said.
The suspect was allegedly set to travel on Nov. 17, but moved the date up after news broke about the Detroit raids against the terror suspects, officials said.
Guzel was waiting for his flight, which was set to take off early Wednesday.
Both suspects are residents of Montclair, a wealthy suburb where a house under $1 million is extremely hard to comeby. New Jersey’s Dem governor-elect Mikie Sherrill and her banker husband are residents of the attractive town.
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Neighbor Craig Weedon said the streets to their neighborhood were closed off for hours as nearly two dozen law enforcement vehicles pulled up outside the Montclair home to arrest Sedarat.
Weedon described the agents as heavily equipped, toting camouflage tactical gear and assault rifles, drawing the attention of the entire neighborhood.
The incident has left the community shaken, with neighbors leaving flowers and condolences notes on the family’s home and expressing their shock over how a local teen could be allegedly connected with such a dark terror plot.
“They’re good kids,” said one woman who declined to give her name. Others described the Sedarat’s as “good neighbors” and a “good family.”
Both men are set to be charged at New Jersey federal court on Wednesday.
The arrests come just two days after a pair of Michigan men were charged with supplying weapons for the ISIS-inspired attack allegedly taking aim at LGBTQ-friendly bars in Detroit.
The court document names Mohmed Ali, 20, as one of the main co-conspirators aiming to unleash a mass shooting on Halloween night, prosecutors said.
The criminal complaint ultimately refers to five unidentified co-conspirators and a minor, labeled “Person 1,” the latter of whom was allegedly assigned to carry out the attack along with Ali, while the rest of the group made their way to join ISIS in Syria.
But before Ali and his associates could carry out the alleged terror attack, authorities raided their homes and a storage unit rented by Ali in nearby Inkster.
In all, investigators recovered three AR-15-style rifles, two shotguns, four pistols and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition — as well as GoPro cameras, tactical vests and additional gear.
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