08-03-2016, 02:00 PM
DC Metro Police Officer Arrested for Supporting ISIS
Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Va., was arrested Wednesday morning at Metro Transit Police headquarters in Washington and his employment was terminated. Young sent codes for mobile messaging cards to an undercover federal agent in the belief that they would be used by Islamic State fighters overseas to communicate, according to an indictment filed in federal court in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Authorities, who had been surveilling Young for six years, said there was never any credible or specific threat to the Metro system. But the indictment details vague threats over the years to kill FBI agents and informants or bring guns into federal court. Young threatened to kidnap and torture an agent who interviewed him, according to the indictment, and leave the head of anyone who betrayed him in a cinder block at the bottom of a Virginia lake.
Young is the first U.S. police officer hit with terrorist charges. He first hit the radar due to his connections to two other Americans who'd converted to Islam to join terror groups. He is in court later today and faces 20 years in prison if convicted.
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Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Va., was arrested Wednesday morning at Metro Transit Police headquarters in Washington and his employment was terminated. Young sent codes for mobile messaging cards to an undercover federal agent in the belief that they would be used by Islamic State fighters overseas to communicate, according to an indictment filed in federal court in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Authorities, who had been surveilling Young for six years, said there was never any credible or specific threat to the Metro system. But the indictment details vague threats over the years to kill FBI agents and informants or bring guns into federal court. Young threatened to kidnap and torture an agent who interviewed him, according to the indictment, and leave the head of anyone who betrayed him in a cinder block at the bottom of a Virginia lake.
Young is the first U.S. police officer hit with terrorist charges. He first hit the radar due to his connections to two other Americans who'd converted to Islam to join terror groups. He is in court later today and faces 20 years in prison if convicted.
Details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pub...l#comments