An as-yet-unknown number of infiltrators/informers/provocateurs managed to talk some low-hanging fruit (communicating on social media!) into making potentially incriminating statements and plans and then swooped in just in time to save the day and garner headlines to scare the cud-chewers. [More]
Low-hanging fruit is a lot safer to infiltrate and manipulate than, say, MS-13, and they get all the headlines with minimal effort or risk of being hanged from a bridge with a chain.