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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 23 February 2018 - 12:16 PM

AP via WTOP radio 2/21/18:

Metro officer sentenced to 15 years in prison for aiding ISIS

 

 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former transit-agency police officer convicted in a sting operation of attempting to help the Islamic State was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release to follow.

 

Nicholas Young, 38, of Fairfax, Virginia, was a patrol officer in the D.C. region’s Metrorail system. He was known as “Officer Friendly” at the Takoma Park station where he was assigned.

 

In late July 2016, Young purchased more than $200 in gift cards he believed would be used to purchase mobile-phone apps that the Islamic State could use to communicate securely. In reality, though, Young’s Islamic State connection was an FBI informant.

 

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Posted 23 February 2018 - 12:22 PM

The Washington Post,​ 2/23/18:

Former Metro police officer sentenced to 15 years in prison in terrorism case

 

 

A former police officer with the D.C. Metro system will spend 15 years in prison after getting caught in a terrorism sting operation, even as he continues to argue that he is not an Islamic State supporter but a misunderstood patriot.

 

Nicholas Young, 38, was found guilty at trial last year, after failing to convince a jury in Alexandria federal court that he was lured by law enforcement into lying for and giving financial support to a supposed Islamic State recruit. The recruit was actually an FBI informant, identified in court only as Mohammed.

 

“I’m sorry for letting my friends down, letting my family down,” Young said in court Friday. “Those people in my life deserved better from me.”

 

But at the same time he continued to criticize the government, saying they misrepresented the body armor in his home and targeted him after trying to get him to “spy on other Muslims in mosques.”

 

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