Federal immigration authorities are detaining the wife and five children of the suspect accused of burning a dozen people at a demonstration in Boulder that sought the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in a video posted on social media Tuesday.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, an immigrant who was living in the U.S. illegally after overstaying a tourist visa, is facing charges that he tried to kill demonstrators by burning them with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails during their weekly gathering Sunday on the Pearl Street Mall.

Soliman, who was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years, arrived in the U.S. in August 2022 on a tourist visa that expired in February 2023. He overstayed his visa and sought political a

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