Virginia man charged with attempting to help Daesh
A Virginia man has been charged with attempting to help the Daesh terrorist group purchase weapons and ammunition.
Lionel Nelson Williams of Suffolk, 26, was arrested Wednesday and charged on Thursday, according to a statement by the US Attorney's Office for eastern Virginia.
Williams sent money to a person he thought was collecting money to buy weapons and ammunition for Daesh militants, the statement said.
According to court records, the recipient was an FBI informant.
Williams placed an order with an online gun dealer for an AK-47 assault rifle a day after the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, in 2015, prosecutors said.
The man fired the gun during target practice in a nearby field, the prosecutors noted, adding, authorities recovered the AK-47 and a handgun at home.
Williams also pledged support for the Takfiri group on social media. “It’s time for me to take a stand,” he wrote on Facebook in March.
He faces up to 20 years in jail, prosecutors said.
Daesh has been ravaging Iraq and Syria since 2014 and also have conducted terrorist attacks in the US as well as some countries across Europe.
On September 17, a man in Minnesota was killed by police after stabbing 8 people in a shopping center, an attack that was later claimed by Daesh.
The knife-wielding attacker, who was dressed in a private security uniform, went on a rampage inside a mall in St. Cloud before being gunned down by an off-duty police officer.
Many people based in the US have been arrested and charged for supporting or trying to support the group.
In October, another Virginia man pleaded guilty to trying to help the group encourage lone wolf attacks in Washington, DC.
Also in the same month, a Maryland resident was charged with plotting to kill a US military member on behalf of Daesh.
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