Mysterious calls placed from NYC terror suspect family's home hours after alleged ISIS-inspired attack

BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. – Dispatch logs obtained by Fox News Digital amusement that 3 calls to instrumentality enforcement were made from 1 of the New York City panic suspects' location successful suburban Philadelphia aft the foiled attack.

The archetypal telephone to instrumentality enforcement came successful astatine 4:15 p.m. connected Saturday, the logs showed. The 2nd came successful astatine 9:19 p.m. A 3rd telephone to instrumentality enforcement was placed connected Sunday astatine 8:54 p.m. The calls were made to 911 oregon non-emergency lines, according to the log. It's unclear what was said connected the calls oregon wherefore they were made.

The calls surfaced arsenic details look astir the suspects’ families. The 2 men lived conscionable 10 miles isolated but came from precise antithetic worlds, leaving neighboring communities stunned.

Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, of Newtown, are accused of throwing unrecorded explosive devices into a protestation taking spot extracurricular Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence, Gracie Mansion, connected Saturday aft making the astir two-hour thrust into New York City, national officials said. 

In a complaint, prosecutors said that a bid of pictures showed the 2 men handling the alleged bomb, which authorities aboriginal determined to person contained Triacetone Triperoxide, oregon TATP, and had nuts and bolts attached with duct tape.

Who are the families of the alleged panic suspects?

Ibrahim Kayumi's family:

Kayumi's parents came to the U.S. from Afghanistan and became naturalized citizens successful 2004 and 2009, according to CBS News.

A LinkedIn belonging to Shaysta, Kayumi's mother, states she's a manager astatine Popeyes.

The father, Khayer Kayumi, attempted to bargain a Popeyes determination successful Brooklyn, New York successful 2010, but wasn't capable to unfastened it due to the fact that of a erstwhile taxation equilibrium connected the property, which was astatine slightest $200,000, according to tribunal documents. The edifice determination was taken implicit by Bank of America successful 2013.

According to Zillow, the Kayumi's location successful Newtown is worthy implicit $2.2 million.

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Emir Balat (left) and Ibrahim Kayumi (right) were arrested successful New York City connected March 7, 2026, successful transportation to an explosive thrown astatine a protestation extracurricular of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's location connected Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images; REUTERS/Madison Swart)

Khayer told the New York Times that they became disquieted aft their lad didn't travel location connected Saturday.

"Maybe helium had killed himself," helium said. "We didn’t cognize what was going on… If he’s going to beryllium 5 minutes late, helium calls."

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Ibrahim Kayumi family's location successful Pennsylvania seen connected Monday, March 9. (Greg Wehner for Fox News Digital)

Emir Balat's family:

Balat’s parents, who were calved successful Turkey, became naturalized U.S. citizens successful 2017, according to the report.

Prior to getting citizenship, Balat's father, Selahattin, sued Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly successful 2017 implicit delays regarding their citizenship application. They initially applied for citizenship successful 2015.

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Emir Balat flees aft throwing a homemade explosive instrumentality toward constabulary arsenic NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards and Sgt. Luis Navarro instrumentality enactment during a protestation successful beforehand of Gracie Mansion, New York politician Zohran Mamdani's authoritative residence, successful New York connected March 7, 2026.   (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)

Violeta Sadauskiene, 1 of Balat's neighbors, told Phillyburbs.com that the Balat's are "absolutely beauteous people."

"There was zero suspicious worldly going connected astatine their house," she said. "Everybody was conscionable successful shock. Everyone. I could not judge it erstwhile I heard it. We thought it indispensable beryllium a mistake."

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Emir Balat family's location successful Pennsylvania. Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were being held without bail aft a tribunal quality Monday connected charges that see attempting to supply worldly enactment to a overseas violent enactment and utilizing a limb of wide destruction.  (Greg Wehner for Fox News Digital)

Balat's lawyer, Mehdi Essmidi, claimed to reporters that the 2 men didn't cognize each different anterior to the attempted attack.

"They're strangers arsenic acold arsenic I know," Essmidi said. "I'm saying they're from antithetic parts of Pennsylvania, they're successful antithetic property groups, they are not known to each other. They bash not unrecorded together, they bash not person household oregon schoolhouse ties."

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The suspect, identified arsenic Emir Balat, was seen holding the alleged weaponry successful beforehand of Gracie's Mansion successful New York City. (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York)

Though Balat is successful precocious school, his lawyer told reporters that helium was finishing classes remotely.

"He's 18, he's finishing schoolhouse remotely due to the fact that helium has lone similar 3 classes near to do. He's successful his elder year," Essmidi said.

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A territory spokesperson told Fox News Digital that Balat is presently successful 12th people successful the Neshaminy School District. Kayumi graduated successful 2024 from Council Rock High School North, schoolhouse officials confirmed.

The spokesperson told Fox News that Balat attended Neshaminy High School until September 2025 earlier going remote.