A New York Metropolis man was arrested Wednesday and charged in federal courtroom with conspiring to supply materials assist to the State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and to the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-Ok), in accordance with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Japanese District of New York.
Mansuri Manuchekhri is accused of wiring $70,000 to people abroad abroad, together with in Turkey – some with alleged intent to assist supporters of ISIS and ISIS-Ok, the prison grievance states.
Manuchekhri allegedly had no less than two jihadist movies in a cloud account and possessed firearms in the US, although he’s within the U.S. on a non-immigrant visa that expired in 2016, the FBI and federal prosecutors mentioned.
Manuchekhri lived in Sheepshead Bay and in Feb. 2022 recorded himself firing an assault rifle at a New Jersey taking pictures vary, sending the video to an ISIS-affiliated particular person in Turkey with the message, “Thank God, Iam ready, brother.”
The arrest got here following an investigation by the FBI’s New York Joint Terrorism Job Pressure, which incorporates the NYPD and FBI.
“The NYPD will stop at nothing to protect New Yorkers from those who support and pledge loyalty to violent ISIS extremists,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned in a press release. “I commend the NYPD investigators and all of our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners for identifying and arresting this gun-toting fraudster, and for thwarting the dangerous domestic threat he posed to our communities.”
