Video: ISIS Suspects Arrested At GTR Airport

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STARKVILLE, Miss.(WCBI)–A Mississippi woman suspected of conspiring with ISIS may have seriously underestimated regional airport security.

In court documents, federal investigators say  20 year old Jaelyn De’Shaun Young talked specifically about choosing to start their journey out of the country from a small airport.

On or about August fourth, Young told an agent posing as a member of ISIS that… Quote… We live in a small town with a very small airport that doesn’t have much security, if any security. End Quote.

Golden Triangle Regional Airport Director Mike Hainsey disagrees.

TSA agents and the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office are both posted at the airport, along with other security measures.

Hainsey can’t discuss much of what happened when the duo was arrested early Saturday morning.

However, he says the FBI’s operation to arrest the couple went without incident.

Mike Hainsey said, “We’ve always been prepared for stuff like this. We have a very good working relationship with our law enforcement agencies. And it worked very well. The big picture here is that the system worked. Someone who wanted to do something bad didn’t get to.”

Hainsey says passengers and staff were never in any danger.

It’s not every day that FBI agents make an arrest involving two suspects having an attraction to the radical middle east Islamic group ISIS.

Golden Triangle Regional Airport Director Mike Hainsey is not saying much about the weekend arrest of Muhammed Oda Dakhlalla of Starkville and Jaelyn Young of Vicksburg.

Hainsey is telling us that the operation was well run by the FBI who did a super job of planning and execution of the operation.

Everything was routine and passengers were not at any risk at any time.

“We’ve always been prepared for stuff like this. We have a very good working relationship with our law enforcement agencies. And it worked very well. The big picture here is that the system worked. Someone who wanted to do something bad didn’t get to,” said Mike Hainsey/GTRA Director.

Bond for Dakhlalla and Young who had planned on getting married in Turkey and head for Syria were denied.