DEARBORN – The Dearborn community continues to be cautious in the days following online threats aimed at the Muslim population.

On Tuesday, November 17, the FBI said it is investigating threats against the city following an intense reaction to the Paris attacks last week.

The FBI Detroit office said it is working with both the Dearborn Police Department and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan following concerns from local residents that the community is at high-risk from being targeted by racists and bigots living here.

“In the immediate wake of the attacks in Paris, law enforcement at all levels has confronted a surge of misguided retaliatory threats toward others across the country,” the FBI said in a statement. “In response to recent threats in Dearborn, the FBI Detroit Field Office, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, and the Dearborn Police Department have collaborated to ensure law abiding citizens are protected, and to deter those who would threaten them.”

David P. Gelios, special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office, said the FBI has developed a relationship with the Arab American community in metro Detroit and it will continue to address their safety concerns.

“The FBI Detroit will aggressively work with our state and local partners to investigate and bring to justice those who would make violent threats against others in response to, or in retribution for, the terrorist attacks conducted in Paris last week,” Gelios said.

In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, U.S. Attorney Barbra McQuade echoed those statements.

“We want to deter anyone from making misguided threats as a backlash to the Paris attacks,” she said.

The announcement comes on the heels of at least one confirmed online threat. Sarah Beebe, a woman from Fort Gratiot, Michigan, caused a social media stir over the weekend when she threatened the city on her Twitter account.

“Dearborn, MI has the highest population in the United States. Let’s fuck that place up and send a message to ISIS. We’re coming,” she tweeted.

Bebe has since apologized for the incident, but Dearborn Police still haven’t announced if any charges will be brought against her. Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad did state that she was not a threat to the public.

Still, an increase of islamophobic remarks and bigotry across the country in recent days has left Arab American and Muslim American residents on high alert.Drones were spotted flying over Dearborn on Tuesday evening, although it has not yet been confirmed if they are in any relation to the FBI.