The wife and five children of the suspect who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at pro-Israeli protestors have been arrested by authorities.
The family of Mohamed Soliman, 45, were taken into custody by agents with ICE and Homeland Security on Tuesday.
Soliman is an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa after entering into the US during the Biden administration.
The legal status and names of his wife and children have not been released.
According to Fox News reporter Bill Melugin, the suspect’s family are being processed for expedited removal, which would allow authorities to rapidly deport them without a hearing in an immigration court.
The arrests of Soliman’s family were confirmed by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on X, where she shared a video saying they will be deported while Soliman’s ‘despicable actions will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.’
‘We are also investigating to what extent his family knew about this horrific attack,’ Noem said. ‘If they had any knowledge of it or if they provided any support to it.
‘I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and for all of their families. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to all of them. And I want them to know, justice will be served.’
The terror suspect is now facing 16 counts of attempted murder and federal hate crime charges after allegedly launching the makeshift flamethrowers on Sunday, wounding at least 12 people.
The wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, the suspect who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at pro-Israeli protestors in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, have been arrested by authorities
Soliman is an Egyptian national who overstayed his visa after entering into the US during the Biden administration. The legal status and names of his wife and children has not been released
Soliman reportedly yelled ‘Free Palestine’ during the attack, and images from the incident show a man holding home-made Molotov cocktails.
He remains in the Boulder County Jail, while his wife and children are now set to be deported from the US.
When he was arrested, Soliman reportedly told investigators that he left messages for his family on his iPhone, which she then turned over to authorities.
According to an affidavit on his arrest, agents also recovered a journal from Soliman’s home in which he detailed his plans for the attack, and said he wanted to ‘kill all Zionists.’
When reporters arrived at Soliman’s home after the attack, toys seeming to belong to small children could be seen outside. The ages of his five children that have now been arrested are not known.
Soliman first entered the US in Los Angeles on August 27, 2022, and was allowed to stay through February 2, 2023, on a non-immigrant visa but never left.
He was granted a work authorization permit on March 29, 2023, which was valid through March 2024, with the Trump administration slamming the previous White House for granting the permit while Soliman was an illegal immigrant.
When reporters arrived at Soliman’s home (pictured) after the attack, toys seeming to belong to small children could be seen outside. The names, ages and legal status of his wife and five children that have now been arrested are not known
‘(Soliman) was granted a tourist visa by the Biden Administration and then he illegally overstayed that visa. In response, the Biden Administration gave him a work permit. Suicidal migration must be fully reversed,’ Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller previously wrote on X.
Soliman has lived with his wife and five children in Colorado Springs, a city about 100 miles south of Boulder, for the past three years. The Egyptian national also previously spent 17 years living in Kuwait.
The affidavit says that he plotted the firebombing for over a year, but waited until after his daughter’s graduation to conduct the attack.
Soliman also worked as an Uber driver and had passed the company´s eligibility requirements, which include a criminal background check, according to a spokesperson for Uber.
An online resume under Suliman’s name says he was employed by a Denver-area health care company working in accounting and inventory control, with prior employers listed as companies in Egypt.
Soliman listed Al-Azhar University, a historic center for Islamic and Arabic learning located in Cairo, on the resume.
