Whitey Ford
07-10-2022, 09:40 PM
Florida man sentenced to 20 years for trying to help ISIS with bomb-making video
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A Florida man accused of wanting to help ISIS by demonstrating how to make and use an explosive, was sentenced to prison for 20 years.
Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 32, was charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and was also sentenced Thursday to 15 years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida.
“The willingness of this dangerous individual to go to great lengths to harm innocent Americans was always very real,” FBI Jacksonville Special Agent in Charge Sherri Onks said in the release.
Langhorne pleaded guilty to the charge on May 13, 2021. But his interest in ISIS began drawing the attention of law enforcement years earlier, according to court records.
Federal court documents say Langhorne pledged his allegiance to ISIS at some point in 2014, knowing that it was a designated foreign terrorist organization engaged in terrorism. He reaffirmed his support in 2018 and 2019 on various social media accounts and also posted terrorist group-produced videos to YouTube, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
In late 2018 and early 2019, while in an online chatroom, he said he wanted to create a video that would show how to make use of a deadly explosive, prosecutors said.
In 2019 Langhorne began communicating with an undercover FBI agent posing as someone working on behalf of ISIS, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Langhorne told the agent he wanted help to create and post the instructional video. He also said the video should have disclaimers that it was intended for educational use so it would not be removed from social media.
Langhorne told the agent his true purpose with the video was to arm ISIS and others with knowledge of how to make bombs and use them for terrorism-related purposes, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/09/florida-man-tried-help-isis-gets-20-years-prison/10021481002/
https://i.ibb.co/1fZD57V/dindunuffin3.png
A Florida man accused of wanting to help ISIS by demonstrating how to make and use an explosive, was sentenced to prison for 20 years.
Romeo Xavier Langhorne, 32, was charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and was also sentenced Thursday to 15 years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Florida.
“The willingness of this dangerous individual to go to great lengths to harm innocent Americans was always very real,” FBI Jacksonville Special Agent in Charge Sherri Onks said in the release.
Langhorne pleaded guilty to the charge on May 13, 2021. But his interest in ISIS began drawing the attention of law enforcement years earlier, according to court records.
Federal court documents say Langhorne pledged his allegiance to ISIS at some point in 2014, knowing that it was a designated foreign terrorist organization engaged in terrorism. He reaffirmed his support in 2018 and 2019 on various social media accounts and also posted terrorist group-produced videos to YouTube, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
In late 2018 and early 2019, while in an online chatroom, he said he wanted to create a video that would show how to make use of a deadly explosive, prosecutors said.
In 2019 Langhorne began communicating with an undercover FBI agent posing as someone working on behalf of ISIS, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Langhorne told the agent he wanted help to create and post the instructional video. He also said the video should have disclaimers that it was intended for educational use so it would not be removed from social media.
Langhorne told the agent his true purpose with the video was to arm ISIS and others with knowledge of how to make bombs and use them for terrorism-related purposes, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/07/09/florida-man-tried-help-isis-gets-20-years-prison/10021481002/