2 Men Charged With Attempting to Detonate Explosives Outside NYC Mayor's Home

Two Pennsylvania men have been federally charged with attempting to detonate improvised explosive devices outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence. The men declared allegiance to ISIS following their arrests, prosecutors announced Monday.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) said earlier Monday that the devices were deployed in the direction of anti-Islamic protesters and NYPD officers.

Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, of Newtown, Pennsylvania, face charges including use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, and attempted provision of material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.

After his arrest, Balat allegedly told officers, "I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State," and when asked whether he had hoped to replicate the Boston Marathon bombing, responded: "No, even bigger. It was only three deaths."

Kayumi, when asked by a bystander about his motivation, responded "ISIS," according to the complaint.
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