ISIS supporters regularly arrested in the US: three frightening stories

The “Islamic State” (ISIS) can be destroyed in Syria, but this terrorist group continues to attempt attacks in the United States. Here are three stories of ISIS supporters arrested by US law enforcement. Two of them were just planning to make attacks. Two were sentenced to almost 16 years in prison. The third, surprisingly, got only 7 years behind bars.

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1. Gregory Lepski - An 22-year-old man from New Jersey was sentenced to 16 years in prison for planning an ISIS attack in New York.

Gregory Lepsky of Point Pleasant pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. The verdict read to him 1 March in a federal court in Trenton. After being released from prison, he will be monitored for life.

Lepsky admitted that he planned to detonate a bomb in a pressure cooker (which he managed to buy) and, through the jihadi website, got access to the instructions for making bombs.

When Lepski was arrested in 2017, he had already converted to Islam. Authorities came to his attention after he tried to kill his family's dog. Both Lepski - who has now changed his name to Allah Abdel Rochmana - and the dog were injured. While paramedics were providing him with medical care, he told them that he planned to kill his mother.

While in the hospital, Lepski said that he swore allegiance to Allah and wanted to fight for the Islamic State. He also said he planned to kill the family dog ​​(as it is considered a "dirty animal" according to Islam), kill his mother and detonate a pressure cooker bomb in a crowded area of ​​New York City.

2. Amer Alhagadzhi — A 23-year-old California man was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison for creating social media accounts supporting the Islamic State. He also told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to target bars and nightclubs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Amer Alhagaji, 23, met numerous times with undercover agents "to plan a potential terrorist attack." He also spent a significant amount of time in Yemen (where his family is from). Potential targets included detonating a bomb outside a gay nightclub and leaving the bombs in backpacks to kill first responders to his attacks.

He posted numerous threats online, promising to "redefine terror" and declaring that "the entire Bay Area will be on fire."

After his arrest in 2017, his lawyer argued that Alhagaji was a “young and naive” man who was simply unaware that he was involved in terrorism.

“Amer does not support ISIS or any other terrorist organization,” the lawyer said in a statement. “He is completely non-violent and he took no action to harm anyone.” "We have evidence that these allegations are based on online conversations he had with several unknown people... it appears he allowed himself to be drawn into conversations that he should have been much more suspicious of."

During the trial, the second lawyer presented him as a former class clown, saying that he was an unemployed Internet troll who smoked weed trying to provoke and annoy people with violent anti-American statements.

However, Alhagaji eventually pleaded guilty to attempting to further the Islamic State by possessing an identity theft device, and he also admitted to unauthorized identity theft and aggravated theft. After his release, Alhagaji will remain under the radar of law enforcement agencies for 10 years.

3. Jasok Ludke — The feds detained a man from Milwaukee who wanted to join ISIS.

38-year-old Jysok Ludke spoke on the Internet with an FBI undercover agent and pledged his loyalty to IS. He also recorded a video of how he swore allegiance.

Together with 32-year-old Yoshvani Padilla-Conde, he planned to go to Mexico and then to Syria to join a terrorist organization.

Both were arrested in San Angelo, Texas, before they went to Mexico. Both stopped in 2016 year. They were accused of trying to support a foreign terrorist organization.

In 2002, Ludka was convicted of sexual abuse of a second-degree child and the threat of federal judge assassination. At that time, he was sentenced to four years in prison. When Lyudka was arrested in Texas, he was on probation. Before leaving Wisconsin, he also cut off his tracking device.

Prosecutors called Luedke a “true danger” and recommended he be sentenced to 20 years and then be subject to supervised release for life. However, Lüdke's lawyers argued that he was a "lost soul" and recommended five years.

As a result, the judge sentenced Lyudka to seven years of federal prison.

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