Afghan national admitted via Operation Allies Welcome charged with making terroristic threat, DHS says

An Afghan nationalist was arrested this week aft posting a video of himself connected TikTok indicating helium was gathering a weaponry with an intended people of the Fort Worth country successful Texas, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told Fox News. 

Court records amusement that Mohammad Dawood Alokozay was charged astatine the authorities level with making a terroristic threat. 

Alokozay came to the United States arsenic portion of Operation Allies Welcome nether the Biden administration, DHS said. The effort resettled Afghans pursuing the U.S. subject withdrawal from the state successful the summertime of 2021. 

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the alleged gunman successful the shooting of 2 National Guard members this week successful Washington, D.C., besides arrived successful the U.S. nether the aforesaid program. 

Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, inset, is being held astatine the Tarrant County Corrections Center successful Fort Worth, Texas, tribunal records show. (Chris Torres/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Alokozay was arrested connected Tuesday – 1 time earlier the shooting successful Washington, D.C. – by the Texas Department of Public Safety and an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force successful a coordinated instrumentality enforcement effort. 

On Sept. 7, 2022, Alokozay was admitted to the U.S. arsenic a lawful imperishable resident.  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer connected Alokozay pursuing his arrest.  

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.