LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – United States Lawyer Andrew Birge declared currently that Muse Muse, age 22, from Lansing Michigan, has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for conspiring to present content assist to the Islamic Point out of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

ISIS is a selected foreign terrorist business. The FBI experienced been tracking Muse’s action on the perception that he could try to join ISIS. Then, on Jan. 21, 2019, special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and associates of its Joint Terrorism Undertaking Pressure arrested Muse Muse at the Gerald R. Ford Global Airport in Grand Rapids, after he checked in for a flight that would finally get him to Somalia, with the aim of becoming a member of ISIS.

Shortly thereafter, his brother Mohamud Muse and cousin Mohamed Haji were being arrested as co-conspirators.

Subsequent his arrest Muse Muse adopted a handwritten assertion well prepared for him by an FBI exclusive agent that summarized his interest in ISIS and finish objective about his help of ISIS.

In it, Muse admitted that he “wanted to join ISIS in Somalia so I would not have to do an attack in the United States.”

According to court docket paperwork, Muse coordinated with an individual he believed to be an ISIS fighter to wire resources for transportation to Somalia, where he prepared to sign up for ISIS. During the conspiracy, all a few defendants had discussions all through which they discussed touring overseas to join ISIS and even