3 charged with planned explosive attack on Muslim community

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Three men are charged with plotting to attack an upstate New York Muslim community with explosives.

WHEC reports that three Rochester-area men are accused of plotting to attack Islamberg, a rural Muslim enclave west of the Catskills.

Police in the Rochester suburb of Greece this weekend arrested 20-year-old Brian Colaneri, 18-year-old Andrew Crysel and 19-year-old Vincent Vetromile. Each was charged with weapons possession and conspiracy.

Court papers say they had multiple, cylinder-shaped explosive devices and mason jars wrapped in duct tape.

Followers of a Pakistani cleric settled Islamberg in the 1980s to flee crime in New York City.

It was unclear whether the men had lawyers yet.