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| US Man Gets 12 Years In Prison For |
| US Man Gets 12 Years In Prison For Seeking To Join ISIS
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 7-June-2016
20:45:28 PM |
| A California man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday for seeking to travel to Syria to join the ISIS group and wage holy war, authorities said.
Nicholas Michael Teausant, a 22-year-old convert to Islam, had pleaded guilty in December to a charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a terror group. He was arrested in March 2014 near the Canadian border, while en route to Syria to join the terror network.
His prison sentence will be followed by 25 years of supervised release.
"Terrorism has to become a zero-tolerance crime. There is no margin for error," US District Judge John Mendez said in imposing the sentence in Sacramento, California.
"It is the court's responsibility to fashion a sentence to reduce any risk you might pose in the future."
According to authorities, Teausant caught the attention of the FBI in 2013 after he joined online forums, expressing a desire to "conduct violent jihad and to be part of America's downfall."
In his subsequent dealings with an FBI informant, he spoke of a plot to attack the Los Angeles subway but later backed away from those plans.
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