Authorities say two people were arrested in Penn Station after investigators uncovered a threat to the Jewish community on Saturday.
and federal law enforcement say they have uncovered and stopped a "developing threat to the Jewish community" on Friday, leading to the arrest of two people.
In a statement on Saturday, the authorities said that the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, the NYPD Counterterrorism unitand Intelligence Bureau investigators had uncovered a threat to the Jewish community on Friday and moved quickly to gather information, identify those behind it and stop them from doing harm.
"By early Saturday, the NYPD's exhaustive intelligence-gathering led to the arrest by sharp-eyed MTA police officers of two individuals entering Penn Station, in Manhattan, and the seizures of a large hunting knife, an illegal Glock 17 firearm and 30-round magazine, and several other items," the Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a statement.
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