HANOVER, Md. – Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., a 21-year-old from Hanover, Maryland, was arrested on prices of trying to offer materials help to ISIS-Somalia, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Maryland introduced on Wednesday.
The arrest was the end result of a covert operation that disrupted Teekaye’s plans to journey overseas to affix the terrorist group.
In accordance with courtroom paperwork, Teekaye had been in touch with a Somali member of ISIS since early 2023, discussing his want to struggle in Africa. His supposed route was by means of Turkey and Ethiopia earlier than reaching Somalia.
Court docket filings additionally revealed that Teekaye had a secondary plan to hold out an assault in the US focusing on supporters of Israel, in case his worldwide enterprise was not profitable.
An FBI agent, beneath cowl, had been monitoring these communications, the place Teekaye expressed his dedication to becoming a member of ISIS.
Teekaye’s arrest occurred as he was about to depart from Baltimore/Washington Worldwide Thurgood Marshall Airport. If discovered responsible, he might withstand 20 years in jail for trying to offer materials help to a overseas terrorist group.
