By Thompson ABISOLA
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on Monday says it has not received report of any credible threat to the July 4 celebrations in the city.
A LAPD media officer told Sputnik that this followed Federal Bureau of Investigation’s disruption of a terror plot in the U.S. state of Ohio.
The officer said “we’re closely monitoring what’s going on around the country, but there’s no credible threats right now.”
He officer added that local authorities were not taking any extraordinary security measures ahead of the celebrations.
Earlier on Monday, the FBI announced that it had arrested an Ohio man and charged him with trying to help a foreign terrorist organisation to carry out an attack on a parade or fireworks display in the Ohio city of Cleveland on July 4.
The suspect, Anthony Pitts, who is a U.S. citizen and has an extensive criminal record, has been charged in a federal complaint with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, the FBI said.
He faces up to 20 years in prison.
Pitts was radicalised in the United States, and is not known to have ever travelled abroad in connection with his radicalisation or attack plan, the FBI said.
