A Rowan University student is among the people arrested in a potential ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Michigan over Halloween weekend, Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, said Thursday.

Rowan freshman Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal, of Montclair, New Jersey, was charged with conspiring to provide material support to a designated terrorist organization, Habba said. Rowan said he was a computer science major who enrolled in the fall.

Jimenez-Guzal and the other suspects charged in the thwarted terror plot planned to travel to Syria and Turkey to join as fighters, according to Habba.

In a letter to the Rowan community, university president Ali A. Houshmand said that the FBI arrested Jimenez-Guzal Tuesday. Jimenez-Guzal was indicted Wednesday. He remains in

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